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Nature 434, 821 (14 April 2005) | doi:10.1038/434821a; Published online 13 April 2005
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Influenza drug could abort a pandemic
Graeme Laver1
- Barton Highway, Murrumbateman, New South Wales 2582, Australia
Email: graeme.laver@bigpond.com
Abstract
It should be taken, not pre-emptively, but after infection is revealed by a rapid flu test.
An influenza pandemic will occur at some time in the future: having worked on flu viruses since 1959, I am certain of this. If the deadly H5N1 'bird flu' suddenly acquired human transmissibility, while retaining pathogenicity, the resulting pandemic would cause millions of human deaths.
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