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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Servant of 9 wrote in part...
"There are too many people.
An extra 150 million die.
There are no longer quite so many surplus people.
QED
SO9"
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OPINION: You are one sick SOB Servant of the 9 to say something like that.
That's a pathetic viewpoint.
I feel sorry for you.
Whatever we may think of So9's posts, this thread is for all practial purposes ruined as a source of information due to the disruptive posts by So9.
I see no reason to particpate in this thread aside from making this remark.
WideAwake wrote this on his/her FR profile page:
What do you think about this "Servant of the 9":
http://www.freerepublic.com/~wideawake/
QUOTE:Servantofthe9's opinion on the deaths of millions of Africans from disease, starvation and war:
"So yes, I am glad many are dieing now."
All you really need to know about me is that I am one of those who does not rejoice in the deaths of millions./END QUOTE
Thank you Judith Anne.
You are cognizant Hitler & Himmler acted on the demonic policies of mass extermination. It's does not matter weather the mass murder is done via gas showers, ovens, shootings of spreading a virus. What you are so casually stating is no different than Tojo, Stalin, Bin Laden or the SS.
"You take staying alive way too seriously. You're way too self important."
First off, if you are an American then you mock the very freedoms we cherish in this country and could care less if millions of your fellow citizens could be eliminated without you blinking an eye. If life is that meaningless then you most likely favour abortion (murder of infants) and also the elimination of the infirmed & elderly?
With such an attitude maybe you better clean up your act or your afterlife will be perpetual roasting.
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