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...have been given Oseltamivir as a precaution. In New Zealand and Mexico, where there are confirmed cases of the disease, the drug has been made available over-the-counter, although pharmacists can exercise discretion about who they sell to. Should the outbreak turn into a global pandemic, there simply aren't enough drugs available for universal use; they will be given only to those suspected of being ill with swine flu, and to front-line healthcare and essential government workers as a prophylactic. (See five things you need to know about swine...
...they aren't used to prevent swine flu, can they help slow the spread of a pandemic? The most effective way of slowing a pandemic is to develop a vaccine. But doing so can take months. In the interim, antivirals may play a vital roll by making ill patients less contagious. When a person is sick with the flu, he or she "sheds" virus through coughing, sneezing and other excretions. Effective antivirals lessen the amount of virus a patient sheds (because the patient is not as severely ill) and shortens the length of time he or she sheds virus...
...some college students are starting to get nervous. The health center at the University of Texas at Austin has been experiencing such a high volume of calls that an automated message now directs students to the center's website. If you are calling for general swine flu information but aren't feverish or coughing, the recorded message directs, "Please hang...
What keeps the flu relatively in check is that there simply aren't that many species that are susceptible to it - with humans, pigs and certain kinds of birds leading the list. "There are surface markers on the cells of some species that bind with sites on the flu virus," says Dr. Peter Daszak, an emerging-disease ecologist and president of the Wildlife Trust. "The influenza virus evolved along with pigs, and it did the same with a few other mammals and with birds." (Read "To Travel or Not to Travel? A Swine Flu Dilemma...
...short, decisions aren't based on brains alone. They are determined, as Kahneman and Tversky put it, "partly by the formulation of the problem and partly by the norms, habits, and personal characteristics of the decision maker...