Any selective pressure on this virus ensures plenty of opportunity for H5N1 to acquire amantadine resistance, which would bring additional difficulties in controlling the pandemic, |
Any selective pressure on this virus ensures plenty of opportunity for H5N1 to acquire amantadine resistance, which would bring additional difficulties in controlling the pandemic. |
He can work with the Chinese perhaps better than anyone else in the world. Getting them to cooperate can be extremely difficult. Fukuda is as good as anyone else at doing this sort of thing: cool and calm. |
Humans don't have resistance to H5N1, and currently vaccines to H5N1 are still being developed. And, the available evidence shows that the most recent strains isolated from humans in Asia are no longer sensitive to inhibition by the amantadine family of drugs, |
Humans don't have resistance to H5N1, and currently vaccines to H5N1 are still being developed. And, the available evidence shows that the most recent strains isolated from humans in Asia are no longer sensitive to inhibition by the amantadine family of drugs. |
I think the vaccine would give you partial protection. It would probably protect you from death. You would probably get very sick but not die. |
It is the worst influenza virus that I have ever seen. When you put it in a ferret, it causes hind leg paralysis and goes to the brain. Don't take it lightly, because it could wipe the hell out of us. |
It was so very fast. You felt sick in the morning, went to bed at lunchtime and were dead by the evening, with blood coming out of your ears and everywhere. |
It's disappointing in that it takes so much. We have to … find ways to do better, to get more bang for the buck. |
Poultry vaccines are the key, |
The bomb squad has been out here, and the public safety professionals have done their checks, and determined that this was not an explosive, fortunately, but we like to err on the side of caution. |
The clock keeps ticking. Every time this virus replicates, it makes mistakes, ... Sooner or later it will make the mistakes that will allow it to go human to human. |
There are multiple different lineages of H5N1 emerging in the world. There are about four different families of viruses out there now. |
These patients in Vietnam ... certainly received the dose that was recommended on the package, but those studies were done with standard H3N2, H1N1 (human flu) viruses. |
These viruses can be out there in apparently healthy birds all the time. These viruses are not killing all the chickens [that carry them], so they are out there. |