Posted on 01/19/2006 4:23:45 PM PST by warpcorebreach
There is no evidence that Tamiflu, the drug being stockpiled by Britain, the United States and Europe, will work if a flu pandemic takes off in humans, according to a review published today by the Lancet medical journal. None of the four existing drugs against influenza has much effect, the paper says. The authors strongly warn against relying on drugs to stamp out a potential avian flu pandemic, saying complacency could get in the way of more useful public health measures - such as hygiene and isolation - to stop the spread of infection.
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Nature's form of population control.
The keyword here is IF!!
Don't think it's going to happnen.
WTF?
Suppposedly, TAMIFLU has already worked in treating the H5N1. As with anything else...it depends on how quickly the patient was diagnosed and treated.
I think most scientists think it's a virtual certainty within the next 10 years.
In all likelihood, it won't have nearly the fatality rate it has now, but the rapidly mutating virus will eventually hit the jackpot and find a way to spread directly between humans.
It doesn't really matter either way... When the doc handed my mother my birth certificate, he also handed her my post-dated death certificate. From dust... to dust. The only thing that matters is what you do with your limited days.
/johnny
In all likelihood, it won't have nearly the fatality rate it has now, but the rapidly mutating virus will eventually hit the jackpot and find a way to spread directly between humans.
I'm curious when society as a whole will classify something such as the "H5N1 bird flu" as a plague or pestilence?
Try using Ionic silver instead.
http://www.asapsolution.com/
Well written. Worry not about tomorrow, all we have is today.
Brevity is the soul of wit, you've exhibited your command of that axiom.
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