[IP] more on Bogus bird-flu drugs flood the Internet

[David Farber <dave@farber.net>]

Begin forwarded message:

From: Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com>
Date: January 3, 2006 8:20:51 PM EST
To: dave@farber.net
Subject: Re: [IP] Bogus bird-flu drugs flood the Internet

> From: EEkid@aol.com
> Date: January 3, 2006 6:47:38 PM EST
> To: dave@farber.net
> Subject: Re: [IP] Bogus bird-flu drugs flood the Internet

>
>  As the Vietnamese have recently discovered,
> Tamiflu is not useful against the avian flu.

My wife is a nurse at our local hospital, and recently attended
an in-service seminar given by their infection control specialist.
He told the group that anti-viral drugs were expected to be
ineffective against the bird flu, because they have been used
as feed supplements in some chinese poultry mega-farms, thus all but
ensuring that the surviving virus would be resistant to them.

/ Lars Poulsen



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