GlaxoSmith Kline (a drug company) It is a bird flu prep ad telling you to go to their website for bird flu information. It is interesting. The drug companies now starting to hawk their wares, now if I could only get my doctor to prescribe some of those meds for my preps. Could someone please post the url for the website, I still don’t have the hang of it yet, thanks.
http://www.gsk.com/infocus/influenza.htm
Doesn’t tell people there will be no way to make enough vaccines until years from now,
doesn’t mention how quickly resistance to antivirals occurs,
and doesn’t tell the public to stock up for long-term supply chain disruptions, and get their communites planning how to cope.
If bird flu virus becomes pandemic, high death rates possible: WHO report by Helen Branswell
“(CP) - There’s no guarantee the H5N1 avian flu virus would become less deadly to people if it triggers a pandemic, a new report from the World Health Organization warns.
A group of eminent influenza scientists gathered by the WHO last month concluded there is no reason to believe that the virus, which kills roughly 60 per cent of people who become infected, would become any milder if it evolves to become a pandemic strain.
The report, based on that meeting, cautions governments against spending a lot of money to stockpile existing H5N1 vaccines. It also reveals that a low level of H5N1 viruses found in wild and domestic birds appear to be naturally resistant to oseltamivir, the main flu drug being stockpiled against a future pandemic.”…