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

To: Think4Yourself who wrote (2639)	10/13/2005 10:20:21 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4232

I'm fairly new to the subject and biologically ignorant, but have been watching for several years since Gwynne Dyer wrote an article on it in the late 1990s or thereabouts. I have heard of cytokines but would need to ask Google what the heck they look like, and eBay how much they cost and whether a cytokine storm is more like Katrina or a monsoon. All I can do is use information and reasoning to figure out what's going on. Why would most influenzas not cause a cytokine storm? I didn't know they had cytokine measuring techniques back in 1918. Maybe they could infer that somehow. I suppose they can easily measure it these days in those currently infected, and work out how best to treat them, which I guess has included Tamiflu, which has only kept alive half those afflicted. I put some more data in my previous post on old people numbers in Vietnam. Have a look. Mqurice