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

To: Elroy Jetson who wrote (2746)	10/16/2005 6:38:55 PM
From: Maurice Winn	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4232

Elroy, re IGG threatment, let's get the cost thing out of the way. If, to use a moderate figure for mortality, there are 100 million deaths and they are valued at something like US$1 million each, that's $100 trillion in cost. Americans are valued at US$2 million each in road death cost analysis and in NZ road deaths are valued at US$1 million. So $1 million is a reasonable figure since Chinese and Indians aren't worth as much as Americans. It's quite fun writing that because that sort of idea makes people foam at the mouth, though they can't deny the truth [well, they can and do deny it, but they have pathetic arguments]. Which isn't to say that truth couldn't reverse in the next few decades and Chinese might become more valuable than Americans. But since the Chinese government values Chinese at a very low price, it's unlikely. Anyway, that little argument aside, whether a form of Tamiflu, a vaccination, Relenza or something else is cheaper, it doesn't matter. The cost of a bit of blood transfusion and processing is trivial compared with the value of the lives involved. I don't think me selling a litre of blood, having if filtered, dried, given a high-priced blessing by a Medical Guild member and put into somebody else would be more than $1000. Seems cheap enough to me. The total cost of the looming catastrophe is bigger than all of Homeland Security and WAT budgets combined. So cost is irrelevant. What works and when is what matters. When you say IGG collection and production isn't quick, I have had blood taken out before and it's quick enough. Maybe half an hour or so. Then there's the drying, fiddling and incantation which I guess takes a bit more time. Then inject it into the recipient. Limited production facilities? What's needed? A couch to lie down on. A sterilized needle to stick in a vein. A bag to catch the blood. A centrifuge to spin out the good stuff, or maybe a filter, and the same needle to stick it back in the next person. Oh, we need the medical blessing too, which we could download from cyberspace with a click of a mouse. We don't need the plague IGG, because it is not rampant. We do need H12N8 IGG because here it comes. When it's rampant, we will have a big supply of people who have developed immunity. I'm sure those about to become stricken, or who are being stricken, will be grateful for some H12N8 IGG since there won't be Tamiflu, or Relenza, or a vaccine and those options might not work on their own. Tamiflu is already, apparently, not very effective. So people should have regular flu vaccinations galore, take Tamiflu and get H12N8 IGG. Then cross their fingers and hope. Also, go on holiday to hot climates like the Sahara, or South Africa or somewhere were the bugs aren't rampant. The flu vaccinations won't get the H12N8 directly, but will have a collateral damage effect as the targeted bugs get blown up and the shrapnel kills H12N8 too. Mqurice