[Mother Abigail]

And in the distance, dark clouds and warnings. Will this storm of confluence pass us by - or visit us with fury?

"Thou the spring of all my comfort,
More than life to me,
whom have I on earth beside thee?
Whom in heaven but thee?"

MA

[Labyrinthos]

Bush's fault.

[RadioAstronomer]

Thanks for posting this.

[sandbar]

Are all the vaccines part of the problem?

[AdmSmith]

A decision to stop using Amatadanes is a difficult one, when we will have a pandemic we never know before if it will have the mutation in M2 than makes them resistant or not.

My guess is that when the flue pandemic starts, somewhere in Asia due to a recombination of other flues probably type A, then it will be determined if it as well have obtained the mutation.

If we use Amantadanes here it will not affect the start of the pandemic, thus we can use them as we do today.

But, they should not use the Amantadanes in China etc. I am not sure if they will agree.

[Aracelis]

"It's hard to tell. We don't know exactly what caused the resistance. And it's possible that if it was caused by a spontaneous mutation the virus could mutate and go back the other way," said Rick Bright of the strain surveillance section of the influenza branch at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta.

Rates of resistance started to rise in China in 2000 and spiked between 2002 and 2003. Additional spikes occurred in 2003 in viruses from Hong Kong, Taiwan and South Korea.

And are these individuals being given sufficient quantities of the antivirals in question? I have my doubts.

[Judith Anne]

I think it was Dr. Niman who suggested that since Tamiflu and Amantadine target viruses differently, they could be used in combination in the event of H5N1 outbreaks. I know about the resistance studies, but I'm wondering if there have been or will have been enough changes in the virus to suggest a use for Amantadine and Relenza.

[vetvetdoug]

Saw a report today that stated the origin of the Coronavirus SARS was originally from a Bat that then infected a civet cat. Metapneumovirus deja' vu.