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To: Grainne who wrote (95654)	2/6/2005 11:57:53 AM
From: Henry Niman	Respond to of 108807

Tamiflu is the only anti-viral available and it does have in vitro activity against H5N1, although its 20X more effective against N2 than N1. Problems with its use in a pandemic is the fact that it has to be taken continuously and it hasn't really been tested under pandemic conditions. The closest was its use on the tigers in the zoo in Thailand and 147 tigers died (which may have been all of those exposed). Thus, its recommended because there is nothing else, and it probably will help some, but it may do little to stop a real pandemic of H5N1 (or H1N1 from Korea).