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Bird Flu----- another thing to worry about.

found it..

About $3 billion of the Senate-approved money would be used to buy the anti-flu drug Tamiflu.

I got 2 week prescription with insurance for 50 bucks.. this stuff is NOT cheap

good luck 🙂
 
Originally posted by: forcesho
found it..

About $3 billion of the Senate-approved money would be used to buy the anti-flu drug Tamiflu.

I got 2 week prescription with insurance for 50 bucks.. this stuff is NOT cheap

good luck 🙂
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So why do they estimate such a high death number? Is it because the third world countries do not have the vaccine?
I still think it would cause a panic even if we have a cure for it, like last years flu shot demand.
 
well, would you rather fight it with or without..

like going to a gun fight with a gun or bare hand.. at least with a gun, I have a fighting chance...
 
Originally posted by: ScottSwingleComputers
I'm not worried. Maybe they will get fvcked in asia, but we are smart enough to not let that happen here.
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You are kidding right? Smart enough.. look at what just happen with the hurricanes.
 
Originally posted by: Jnetty99
Originally posted by: forcesho
found it..

About $3 billion of the Senate-approved money would be used to buy the anti-flu drug Tamiflu.

I got 2 week prescription with insurance for 50 bucks.. this stuff is NOT cheap

good luck 🙂
Click to expand...


So why do they estimate such a high death number? Is it because the third world countries do not have the vaccine?
I still think it would cause a panic even if we have a cure for it, like last years flu shot demand.
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Tamiflu can't be produced except in very limited quantities because producing flu vaccine is not a very profitable business and as such there are very few places in the world that can make it. The numbers are surprisingly low for how many vaccines could be produced, and taking into consideration the time it would take to ship/innoculate, many would already be exposed.

Moreover, the virus is showing growing resistance to it.

All of that aside, until H5N1 mutates and is transferrable human-to-human, don't panic. If/when that happens, worry.

EDIT: "...maybe in Asia..."
Are you kidding? This is a flu virus we're talking about. Not much can stop it from spreading short of shutting down all international travel/trade, and by the time we managed to do that it would likely already have found it's way across borders. Remember the scare with SARS? Same idea, far more easily transferred (if it ever is transferrable human-to-human).
 
Whey protien and Glutamine are also helpful for your immune system.

What is Glutamine?

Glutamine is an amino acid. Amino acids are the building blocks to protein. Glutamine is not just any amino acid, it is the most abundant amino acid in our body - and highly concentrated in our muscles. Glutamine has recently been re-classified as a conditionally essential amino acid. This means that while the body can make glutamine, there are times when the body's need for glutamine is greater than its ability to produce glutamine.

What can Glutamine do for me?

Studies have shown that glutamine supplementation can do the following:

* Increase Protein synthesis (which leads to increased muscle mass)
* Increase nitrogen retention
* Decrease muscle breakdown
* Decrease recovery time needed after a workout
* Enhance immune functions
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currently:
Bird (not only chicken etc, but in migrating birds which easy to reach chicken in the farm)-> man Yes: H5N1 (may only take 2 days to kill you. since it affect not only lung but compare to other flu, it affect central nervous system too.)

man -> man... not YET (but most like will be what a year or 2....?) Then all hell broke loose...
 
Originally posted by: ScottSwingleComputers
I'm not worried. Maybe they will get fvcked in asia, but we are smart enough to not let that happen here.
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Reuters story reports woefully inadequate stockpiles of anti-flu drugs.

The United States has enough of the antiviral medication oseltamivir, marketed by Roche Laboratories as Tamiflu, to treat about 2.3 million people.

But some 90 million people would need the medication in the event of a flu pandemic, said Hayden, adding the nation should have enough for 4.3 million people by year's end.

Quoted from H5N1...

You're better off ordering Tamiflu from Canada!

Umm... in terms of a vaccine, we have the classic chicken or the egg conundrum. 😕 Right now, the virus (hopefully) hasn't mutated to a form that allows human to human transmission. Current cases have been chicken to human, hence "avian" flu. The danger is that the virus will mutate to a form that allows for human to human transmission, but until it does mutate there is no way to develop a vaccine yet. That development will take 6 to 12 months... hence the possible pandemic once the mutation occurs. That's also why foreign ministers of health have been highly critical of the US position (with a stockpile insufficient to protect even all of our health care workers in the event of an Outbreak, nevermind the general population).

Good article in the current issue of National Geographic...
 
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