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January 25, 2005
Avian flu fighters eye drug stockpile
Topics: Health IssuesYes, this is another article on avian influenza, this time in tomorow's Jan 26 article appearing in:
- The Australian
AUSTRALIA might have to consider diverting some
of its stockpile of antiviral drugs to Asian countries in a bid to stop
a feared worldwide epidemic of bird flu.
Experts have suggested the move to halt the progress of avian
influenza, which was this week credited in a leading medical journal
with its first case of human-to-human transmission.
An editorial in the New England Journal of Medicine warned that the
H5N1 virus that causes avian flu - which killed 32 people in eight
Asian countries in an outbreak in 2004 - had become more dangerous, and
had increased the number of animals besides birds it could infect. Read more... BUT THERE ARE TWO PROBLEMS WITH THIS NEWS: For more on avian influenza refer to most recent previous post.
1. It isn't the first human to human transmission! and.....
2. The H5N1 now has an Amantidine-resistant (one of the very few drugs to use against it) strain
(J Gen Virol. 2005 Feb;86 (Pt 2): 423-433) !
Posted by Hyscience at January 25, 2005 10:09 PM
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