Bird Flu Pandemic Tamiflu
In
a bird flu pandemic tamiflu may not be as effective as
authorities hope.
Many countries like the USA are
stockpiling tamiflu in preparation for a bird flu
pandemic.
Members of the public are buying up tamiflu for
their own personal bird flu protection.
But until the bird
flu mutates to a human to human virus we can't be certain that
tamiflu will be effective against the bird flu virus.
And
the latest signs are not good...
In an unsettling
development for health authorities tamilflu resistant strains of
the bird flu are appearing.
A vietnamese girl diagnosed
with bird flu with a tamiflu resistant strain of bird
flu.
Fortunately she survived after being treated with
Relenza – another antiviral drug.
In China the bird
flu strain H5N1 is showing around 70% resistance to adamantane
drugs like Tamiflu.
William Chui from the Queen Mary
Hospital in Hong Kong said viral resistance to tamiflu was
growing in Japan where doctors commonly prescribe the drug for
influenza.
It's also important to note that
Tamiflu and other anti viral drugs don't stop the bird flu from
entering your body – they fight the virus once it is
already inside your body.
Tamiflu works by stopping the
virus from bursting out of infected cells in your body.
It
does this by inhibiting an enzyme called neuraminidase on the
surface of the virus cells.
This can help stop viruses
like the bird flu infecting other cells in your body and also
possibly reduce the chance that you'll infect other people.
To
be effective you need to take tamiflu within 48 hours of becoming
ill.
But if a bird flu strain is resistant to
the drug then tamiflu may not be the answer to a bird flu
pandemic.
It pays to be prepared and the first preparation
is paying attention to personal hygiene.
Around 90% of
respiratory viruses like the bird flu, the common cold and
influenza that enter our bodies get there when we touch the
mucous membranes of our eyes and nose with our fingernails.
So
hand washing really is the first line of defense against a bird
flu pandemic - not tamiflu.
But washing
your hands is more complex than it might seem on the
surface.
You need to use the right kinds of soap and if
you can't use soap there's only one alternative that's proven by
the USA Centers Of Disease Control to be effective and it's NOT
an antibacterial solution.
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