more on Bogus bird-flu drugs flood the Internet

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

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From: Thomas Leavitt <thomas () thomasleavitt org>
Date: January 5, 2006 11:02:55 AM EST
To: dave () farber net
Cc: lars () beagle-ears com
Subject: Re: Re: [IP] Bogus bird-flu drugs flood the Internet

From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Subject: more on  Bogus bird-flu drugs flood the Internet
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2006 20:36:19 -0500



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From: Lars Poulsen <lars () beagle-ears com>
Date: January 3, 2006 8:20:51 PM EST
To: dave () farber net
Subject: Re: [IP] Bogus bird-flu drugs flood the Internet

> From: EEkid () aol com
> Date: January 3, 2006 6:47:38 PM EST
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: Re: [IP] Bogus bird-flu drugs flood the Internet

>  As the Vietnamese have recently discovered,
> Tamiflu is not useful against the avian flu.

My wife is a nurse at our local hospital, and recently attended
an in-service seminar given by their infection control specialist.
He told the group that anti-viral drugs were expected to be
ineffective against the bird flu, because they have been used
as feed supplements in some chinese poultry mega-farms, thus all but
ensuring that the surviving virus would be resistant to them.

/ Lars Poulsen


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The routine use of any anti-biotic or anti-virual drug as feed
supplements should be treated as a crime against humanity, and
stigmatized to the utmost - the penalty for a violation should be life
in prison, with seizure of all assets for donation to medical
research... in the case of a corporation, it should be dissolution, with
the assets being auctioned off and the proceeds donated to medical
research and charity. The individuals involved in this should be reviled
and outcast.

We KNOW this breeds "superbugs" - it is basic genetic science, there is
no rational reason for anyone, anywhere, to be engaging in these
practices. The predicted impact of an Asian Bird Flu pandemic in the US
(alone) is staggering - it makes Osama, and even Dubya, look like
pikers... and this is only the first among many possibilities.

Thomas



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