It tells us that even when the reservoir goes down to a level that you can barely, if not at all, detect, the body still has probably other hidden reservoirs that we have not been able to detect or that same reservoir that's in such a small amount that our methods of trying to detect it are not sensitive enough. So it is telling us that this idea of eradication of the virus is looking more and more like something that is not within our grasp, at least not with the currently available drugs, |
It's a bit of muted good news, in that we're going in the right direction, but the sobering news is we have a long way to go. |
It's a good start what the World Bank is doing, |
It's a virus that's easily transmitted from person to person through aerosolized droplets from saliva and other body fluids, ... It is unlike anthrax in that it can be transmitted from person to person and not just a danger by a direct contact. |
It's been over 30 years since we've had a pandemic, so inevitably we are going to have a pandemic within a reasonable period of time. |
It's going to be difficult to predict whether or not [the hurricane] is going to have an impact on West Nile, |
It's still inefficient. It's not something we need to panic about. But it's giving us a big wake-up call, |
Luckily, those two factors will neutralize each other. |
Most of the time, in the real world, you get a patient after they've been infected for a reasonably long period of time. |
short-term amelioration of the shortage response. |
That's the thing that from the research standpoint we are working on very diligently right now, ... Of developing new types of approaches, of being able to quicken and give greater efficiency to the process of being able to identify the strain and getting it into the vaccine in time. |
That's why we are preparing so intensely for H5N1 as well as any other pandemic, |
The chances of there being transmissibility by blood to blood contact on a basketball court is so infinitesimally small that it is something that shouldn't influence a decision whether someone would come back or not, |
The chances of there being transmissibility by blood to blood contact on a basketball court is so infinitesimally small that it is something that shouldn't influence a decision whether someone would come back or not. |
The entire purpose of a vaccine is to mimic infection as best you can. Historically, a live vaccine induces more potent, lasting and broader immune responses than a killed vaccine. The body is seeing the microbe in a way that is much more analogous to a real infection. |