WHO issues plan to limit bird flu outbreak in humans (MSNBC)

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Date: 2006-06-01 05:39:36

WHO issues plan to limit bird flu outbreak in humans (MSNBC)

... ay, including the rapid mass use of the antiviral Tamiflu, for containing a bird flu outbreak if the virus starts to spread rapidly among humans.The “rapid response and containment strategy” has a chance of quashing the deadly H5N1 virus only if people in the zone at risk receive massive doses of the drug within three weeks of a confirmed outbreak, it said.“The success of a strategy for containing an emerging pandemic virus is strictly time dependent,” the WHO said in its latest containment report, based on recommendations by 70 international e ...

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