WHO issues plan to limit bird flu in humans
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Topic: WHO issues plan to limit bird flu in humans
Posted By: 2ciewan
Subject: WHO issues plan to limit bird flu in humans
Date Posted: June 09 2006 at 11:43am
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Posted By: 2ciewan
Date Posted: June 09 2006 at 11:49am
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follow up from other source
WHO plans 24-hour response to bird flu outbreak STEPHANIE NEBEHAY THE World Health Organisation (WHO) issued a step-by-step plan yesterday, including the rapid mass use of the antiviral Tamiflu, for containing a bird flu outbreak if the virus starts to spread rapidly among humans. The "rapid response and containment strategy" has a chance of quashing the deadly H5N1 virus only if people in the zone at risk receive massive doses of the drug within three weeks of a confirmed outbreak, it said. "The success of a strategy for containing an emerging pandemic virus is strictly time dependent," the WHO said in its latest report. "Mathematical models have indicated that a containment strategy, based on the mass administration of antiviral drugs, has a chance of success only when drugs are administered within 21 days following the timely detection of the first case representing improved human-to-human transmission of the virus." Under the timeline laid down, a country should notify WHO of a cluster of suspicious cases suggesting sustained human-to-human spread of the virus within 24 hours of detection. A WHO-approved laboratory has another 24 hours to confirm that the H5N1 bird flu virus has changed, either through mutation or through reassortment with human influenza. The strategy relies on WHO's global stockpile for rapid containment, three million treatment courses of Tamiflu, donated by the Swiss drugmaker Roche. Quarantine, infection control measures and contact tracing must also be carried out. Once the WHO officially asks Roche for Tamiflu doses to be sent, they should arrive at the international airport nearest the outbreak within 24 hours, the Geneva-based agency said. http://news.scotsman.com/health.cfm?id=802442006 - link |
Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: June 09 2006 at 11:58am
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Thanks for the post...It's a bold move because, there isn't enough to go around as it is and to give it to people that might contract the virus to stop it in its tracks is a risk. With all the plane trains and automoble I'm not convinced it will work.
I pray they know what there doing. I wish I had the money to buy tamiflu..I'm scared to buy it in canada ...What if it's not tamiflu Im buying.
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Posted By: kparcell
Date Posted: June 09 2006 at 2:37pm
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THANKS, WHO!
In my very appropriately humble opinion, this seems the best strategy, the best chance of containment if the virus achieves efficient human transmission. I also applaud the work of the American CDC, which is working to create all of the general forms the virus might assume in able to develop vaccines ahead of mutation. Brilliant! And thanks, 2ciewan and Avian Flu Forum, for keeping us informed. Best regards, Kevin Parcell http://homepage.mac.com/forever.net |
Posted By: pugmom
Date Posted: June 09 2006 at 3:18pm
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I wonder if that huge supply of Tamiflu and other supplies ever got out of Indonesian customs quarantine? ------------- jpc |
Posted By: ShaRenKa
Date Posted: June 09 2006 at 4:23pm
I hear you HappyCamper....no way to be sure! Thats why I'm going around the block with herbal remedies, Native American style (plus 101% isolation)... at least I can tell if it's real or not...and probably stand as good a chance on it as the tamiflu. ------------- Sha Ren Ka |
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