From FluWIki today:
UK - Ministers urged to consider jabs for all to fight any pandemic :applause:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t...
Mass immunisation against H5N1 flu could reduce the impact of a pandemic to normal seasonal levels if combined with extensive use of antiviral drugs, government scientific advisers have concluded.
Research presented to the Department of Health has suggested that inoculating the entire population with a "pre-pandemic" vaccine that does not precisely match the pandemic strain could confer sufficient immunity to cut infection dramatically. Such a strategy would have to be combined with stockpiling enough of the antiviral drug Tamiflu to treat 75 per cent of the population, the department's Pandemic Influenza Scientific Advisory Group (SAG) said. This would allow every infected person to be treated while the drug was given preventively to those in infected households.
This was reported a few days ago but I've found the report it refers to.
http://www.advisorybodies.doh....
It's probably worth a read. Which is what I'm off to do ;-) .
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by: UK - Bird @ Thu Nov 22, 2007 at 04:24:57 AM CST
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It is definately worth a read!
So much so that I have printed off a copy and am taking it to my G.P. and leaving it for him to read.
If you don't hear from me then I will probably have been committed!
Not sure I am joking.
How did you manage to access this - can you go straight to a DOH website?
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by: elona @ Thu Nov 22, 2007 at 06:36:07 AM CST
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UK: Government unveils plans to fight future flu pandemic
David Batty
Guardian Unlimited
Thursday November 22 2007
http://www.guardian.co.uk/soci...
The health secretary, Alan Johnson, will today set out emergency plans to tackle a flu pandemic that could kill up to 650,000 people. Johnson will unveil the National Pandemic Flu Framework, which sets out how emergency services should cope with the death toll, in parliament this afternoon.
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UK - Ministers urged to consider jabs for all to fight any pandemic :applause:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/t...
Mass immunisation against H5N1 flu could reduce the impact of a pandemic to normal seasonal levels if combined with extensive use of antiviral drugs, government scientific advisers have concluded.
Research presented to the Department of Health has suggested that inoculating the entire population with a "pre-pandemic" vaccine that does not precisely match the pandemic strain could confer sufficient immunity to cut infection dramatically. Such a strategy would have to be combined with stockpiling enough of the antiviral drug Tamiflu to treat 75 per cent of the population, the department's Pandemic Influenza Scientific Advisory Group (SAG) said. This would allow every infected person to be treated while the drug was given preventively to those in infected households.
This was reported a few days ago but I've found the report it refers to.
http://www.advisorybodies.doh....
It's probably worth a read. Which is what I'm off to do ;-) .
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by: UK - Bird @ Thu Nov 22, 2007 at 04:24:57 AM CST
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UK Bird
It is definately worth a read!
So much so that I have printed off a copy and am taking it to my G.P. and leaving it for him to read.
If you don't hear from me then I will probably have been committed!
Not sure I am joking.
How did you manage to access this - can you go straight to a DOH website?
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by: elona @ Thu Nov 22, 2007 at 06:36:07 AM CST
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UK: Government unveils plans to fight future flu pandemic
David Batty
Guardian Unlimited
Thursday November 22 2007
http://www.guardian.co.uk/soci...
The health secretary, Alan Johnson, will today set out emergency plans to tackle a flu pandemic that could kill up to 650,000 people. Johnson will unveil the National Pandemic Flu Framework, which sets out how emergency services should cope with the death toll, in parliament this afternoon.
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