Posted on 09/30/2005 9:26:51 AM PDT by Rutles4Ever
Experts in Hong Kong said on Friday that the human H5N1 strain which surfaced in northern Vietnam this year had proved to be resistant to Tamiflu, a powerful antiviral drug which goes by the generic name, oseltamivir.
They urged drug manufacturers to make more effective versions of Relenza, another antiviral that is also known to be effective in battling the much feared H5N1. Relenza is inhaled.
"There are now resistant H5N1 strains appearing, and we can't totally rely on one drug (Tamiflu)," William Chui, honorary associate professor with the department of pharmacology at the Queen Mary Hospital in Hong Kong, told Reuters.
Chui was referring to the Tamiflu-resistant strain of H5N1 in Vietnam. Chui also said general viral resistance to Tamiflu was growing in Japan, where doctors habitually prescribe the drug to fight the common influenza.
"Manufacturers should think about producing an injectable form of Relenza because resistance to Tamiflu has been seen in Japan and Vietnam. Also with injections, high doses can be given where necessary and onset time is a lot faster," Chui said.
Drugs that are administered intravenously can be better absorbed in patients who have stomach and acidity problems, another expert said.
"We don't have to worry about absorption, injections take drugs right in. But if the patient takes them orally, maybe some amounts won't be absorbed or some may be destroyed by stomach acids," said pharmacist Raymond Mak at Queen Mary Hospital.
In places such as China, drug resistance exceeded 70 percent, suggesting that drugs like amantadine and rimantadine will probably no longer be effective for treatment or as a preventive in a pandemic outbreak of flu, the reports said.
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Spare people? Real classy.
You do realize that 150 million people is about half our population?
What if one of the disposable human beings were someone you loved and cared about ... would it still be a good thing?
Yes, if it was me, it would still be a good thing.
There are things in this world bigger than me and mine or you and yours.
National Defense and population control ar two of them.
So9
50%
Yep.
It would be a start.
I would like to see our population under 100 million.
That was the population when the frontier was closed in the 19th century.
The country was oficially full and we should have stopped all immigration and done everything possible to keep our population from overgrowing the country like mold in New Orleans.
So9
They will still come across our open borders.
Of the total confirmed cases, it is running over 50%. If it breaks out in an easily contagious human to human mode, nobody knows what it will be. Speculation is, authorities "hope" it will drop to only 5-10% when (not "if") it breaks out into a pandemic. But nobody really knows what it will be until then.
One thing we do know now - it is extremely lethal when people catch it. Most people so far seem to have caught it directly from birds. However, some have caught it from other people with whom they have close contact, such as family members.
Check the following thread for updates:
The "government" can't protect the citizens from everything. Some things are just gonna happen, and if someone wants protection, they have to do it themselves. No doubt, the gov't can do something, and from what I have read people are working on the problem. But the gov't isn't Godlike and some natural disasters are beyond human agency to prevent or eliminate. This is one of them. Throughout history there have been epidemics that have killed large numbers of people, and this will no doubt happen in the future as well.
Now, if pigs and chickens and ducks and geese and people stopped living in close dirty quarters in China, the flu wouldn't happen at all. But is that likely to stop happening soon?
Asia, not just China. And we can't nuke 'em all...
50%
They are talking about half the population getting it and 100,000 dying, that is hardly 50%. It is less than 0.1%.
The 150 million mortality figure is out of a world population of over 4 Billion.
So9
hhhmmmm ... well, if you feel that strongly about it and it's for the common good, you can always "martyr" yourself now and help beat the odds of it spreading. Should we put you on a "suicide watch"? =)
Yes, if it was me, it would still be a good thing.
Astounding.
You have one scary attitude.
Try telling that to the libbies.
hhhmmmm ... well, if you feel that strongly about it and it's for the common good, you can always "martyr" yourself now and help beat the odds of it spreading. Should we put you on a "suicide watch"? =)
I have one child, adopted.
That is doing my part.
What has your family ever done except hope to breed like lice?
So9
See post 26 (if you haven't already...) It is 50% for the flu as it now exists, which is chiefly transmitted from fowl to humans.
That's what I said. Anyone who feels that way has my undying gratitude if they would "marytr" themselves so one of my children's odds of surviving would instantly go up.
Pay attention to the people you quote.
So9
I guess this would be the time for me to "count to 100" before responding to your post. Otherwise, I'd get banned.
You seem to have a poor grasp of statistics as well as logic.
So9
I quoted Davis because what he says is so weird and frightening that everybody needs to see it. It sounds like you agree with him. I certainly hope very few others do.
Here's another really weird quote from an Earth First devotee named Dave Forman (see my tagline)...
So, National Healthcare in Japan is contributing to viral resistance that puts the planet at risk? Hmmmmm...but I thought that national care was supposed to be sooooo much better than a private system! /sar.
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