[plug] [OT] Bird flu

Alex Polglaze apolglaze at book-keepingnetwork.com.au
Sun Oct 2 22:42:21 WST 2005


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>>The only drug shown to be effective against this virus, Tamiflu, is available on prescription only. I don't know what she was offering to sell you, but it won't help against this new avian strain. SARS never concerned me, but this one does. I definitely could not survive such an infection at this point.
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>>Ari
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> I heard there was 2 drugs but I can't remember what either was called.
> The super virus could even be immune to Tamiflu by the time it is formed
> but we don't know until/if it happens.

Relatzin? Something like that anyway.

Just imagine for a moment if Avian flu ended up in Africa and mutated with ebola.

Instead of 2.5% of the world's population being killed off, the figure would 
be... unimaginable.



ALex Polglaze




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