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To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (43081)10/8/2005 6:00:22 PM
From: Wyätt Gwyön  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 110194
 
Its also important to realize that the Bird Flu virus, like the 1918 flu virus, is very deadly precisely because it is an avian virus, not yet well adapted to humans.

so if you were playing one of those computer games where you can be king of the world, would it be utilitarian to quarantine several thousand people and expose them to the virus, so that a weaker, less lethal strain develops. would it be possible to contain pandemic casualties by a couple orders of magnitude by this method?

not that there'd be any volunteers in the real world...



To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (43081)10/9/2005 12:29:51 AM
From: Jim McMannis  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 110194
 
I take it an effective vaccine can't be made until the virus actually mutates into a human transmisible form?

Where did you get the interferon-A?

I do have a 5 day supply of Tamiflu and a bunch of Amantadine. The later may be a waste.


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