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How is bird flu treated? Antiviral drugs such as amantadine and rimantadine are effective against some strains of flu, but the current virus sweeping Asia keeps mutating and appears resistant to these cheaper drugs. It's believed that pricier drugs such as Tamiflu will prove more effective, but supplies are...
But is likable the same as electable? How much does winning Mr. Congeniality help convince voters that you are the one to send into the ring against Bush? History helps here, because the more optimistic candidate nearly always wins, and most recently, it worked for George W. Bush. In the...
One unanswered question about this winter's flu epidemic was whether the vaccine that Americans were clamoring to get would protect against the predominant Fujian strain. We may have the answer. A preliminary CDC study of 1,818 Colorado hospital workers suggests the vaccine had "no or very low effectiveness...
Their fear is that of all the diseases in the world today?from SARS to AIDS, anthrax to Ebola?the single microbe with the greatest potential to become, as epidemiologists say, a "slate wiper," is influenza. Previous pandemics, such as the global outbreak of 1918 that killed an estimated 60...
The threat of bioterrorism jump-started dormant plans to create reliable vaccines against some of the world's deadliest agents. In October U.S.-government scientists began their first human trial of an experimental vaccine against Ebola, a lethal African virus that triggers severe internal bleeding and kills up to 90...