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Biotech / Medical : SARS and Avian Flu
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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (2718)10/15/2005 11:41:31 PM
From: Maurice Winn  Read Replies (2) of 4232
 
Elroy, let's suppose 2 out of 3 people survive humanized H5N1. That would mean there would be a huge amount of survivor blood juice [if they were offered a lot of money for their blood]: <Are you actually suggesting "preventative" injections of IGG for the world's population from the hundred or so bird flu survivors?>

It might be a much better solution than goofing around with Tamiflu and Relenza which might or might not be useful - they won't even be available if a pandemic starts due to lack of production capacity.

A blood extraction business could be started now, as Richard says, extracting blood from survivors and injecting it into people treating new victims to protect them. As more and more people experience the disease, there will be more and more blood available and more and more protected health workers.

Each person who experiences the disease can go on producing blood, month after month, so the total volume of blood juice would become huge and general treatment would be available for those who were will to pay the price.

It seems to me as though Richard has come up with an excellent idea.

It's time to start the business. Where's the list of the names of cured victims? How much do they want for each 500 ml of blood we take from them? Who wants to buy immunity? We can probably store the stuff in big refrigerators until the price rises.

Mqurice
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