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Biotech / Medical : SARS and Avian Flu -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Biomaven who wrote (785)	5/11/2003 7:06:59 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4232

Peter, on the other hand, maybe the bigger the bug, the more difficult it is for our immune systems to cope. Monster bacteria need to be poisoned with antibiotics and they can come back again the following week. Tapeworms seem not to suffer from immune systems. Leeches latch on with impunity, time after time. Dogs bite, lions eat and great whites swallow like lollies. My immune system needs artillery to handle those attacks. I suppose I could ask Google about the relationship between microbe size and immune system response. But I'm as lazy as an immune system facing Sars. I'm sure that the more the antigens, the easier it must be to kill the bug and the greater the surface area of the bug, the greater the number of antigens and the longer it would take to mutate them to hide the bug from the immune system's memory of what it looked like last time around. I shall believe that until proven otherwise. Mqurice