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Bird Flu May Be Developing Drug Resistance
Pingular writes "The virus currently causing bird flu in humans may be developing resistance to the only drug that can so far combat the infection. From the article: 'A previous paper in the journal Nature described a single case of drug resistance in a patient being treated for avian flu. However, in this case the patient had been given low doses of Tamiflu before becoming infected, as a family member had been stricken. Lead researcher Dr Jeremy Farrar described the latest findings as "very worrying" - but said they were not surprising.'"
at this time of year...
... President Bush decides to bomb the Canary Islands in a bid to stop a global flu outbreak...
Flu develops resistance to birds.
Do not try to read the dupe, thats impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth
What truth?
There is no dupe
of the guy who led the Tamiflu development team. She was exteremely bright, very cute and completely dyslexic and I completely failed to make any kind of romantic impact on her. Curse my failed dreams of marrying into a monied geek/scientist family!
:)
Yes completely offtopic and mod me whichever way you like
I don't read your sig, why do you read mine?
The real solution, and I think everyone will agree with me on this, is to kill all the birds.
"If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you." - DM
Don't be ridiculous. He'll say "We're looking for Big Bird. We believe he's holed up in the Canary Islands, so we're invading Iran."
Turns out Bush got the same advisor as O. J. "I will search every golf course for Nicole's killers" Simpson.
"To most people such claims as "the virus is developing the ability to resist some drug" might sound as if the microorganisms can think and somehow train themselves to defend against drugs.
But what that means is that the virus undergoes mutations at a certain rate."
What THE HELL are you talking about? Natural selection? Evolution based on random mutation??
We all know God INTELLIGENTLY TWEAKS those virus strands to make them resistant to drugs, FOR THE GOOD OF MANKIND!!
Oh wait..
I have RTFA and determined that there is no way such resistance could have simply evolved - to have done so would be like a tornado going through a junk yard and a 747 being the result. Therefore I must conclude that the new resistance of the Avian Flu virus was intelligently inserted, i.e., designed, much the way God designed our eyes, tonsils, and (most thoughtfully of all) our precious wisdom teeth
The flag just makes more sense than the constitution. - Judas Gutenberg
If you happily nibble on raw garlic, then you probably don't get sick because no one comes close enough to infect you.
no taxation without representation!