Re: UK bird flu

andy.ceeatdsl.pipex.com
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>
> andicee wrote:
>> Here's what our lot intend...however, and i could be wrong, but i
thought
>> a
>> vaccine couldn't be made until they knew the particular strain
>>
>>
http://www.direct.gov.uk/Nl1/Newsroom/NewsroomArticles/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=10
>> 016131&chk=SSeqUo
>>
>> Millions of doses of drugs to ward off a flu pandemic are to be
>> stockpiled,
>> the Government has announced.
>>
>> Ministers say that without the antiviral treatment an outbreak could
kill
>> as
>> many as 50,000 people.
>>
>> Experts believe a pandemic will probably emerge if Avian influenza -
>> known
>> as bird flu - mutates with human flu, creating a highly infectious new
>> virus.
>>
>> The UK Influenza Pandemic Contingency Plan could see concerts and
>> football
>> matches banned and travel restricted to stop the virus spreading.
>>
>> The Department of Health is to buy in 14.6m courses of the antiviral
drug
>> Tamiflu, which reduces the symptoms and the risk of a carrier passing
on
>> the
>> virus.
>>
>> It will be enough for a quarter of the population - the World Health
>> Organisation's recommended level.
>>
>> Several countries, including Canada, the US and Australia, have already
>> started building up reserves of the drugs.
>>
>> Chief Medical Officer Sir Liam Donaldson said the impact of a pandemic
>> would
>> be 'severe' with disruption to everyday life.
>>
>> "The steps we are setting out today will help us to reduce the
disease's
>> impact on our population."
>>
>>
>> --
>> Andy
>>
>> "24 hours in a day, 24 beers in a case. Coincidence?
>>
>> I think not."
>>
>> Stephen Wright
>>
>> andy.ceeatdsl.pipex.com
>>
>>
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> The article is in reference to purchases of Tamiflu and
> now Relenza .. not vaccines.

Your point is?
>


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