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DECSHAK, you are trolling old waters. TERPGIRL's gone.
posted by
majroj
on March 17, 2006 at 12:00 PM
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majroj has it right.
posted by
WindTapper
on March 17, 2006 at 7:02 AM
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I don't agree.
A shortage from underproduction would push countries to "nationalize" the patent as surely a shortage brought on by hoarding. "Hoarding" per se would not result in loss of license, and in fact would result in doses taken when they shouldn't be taken and many doses to sit until they expire or are done in by heat and storage conditions.
A strategic release and administration of any preventative medicine or vaccination can do much more good with an unavoidably underavailable resource, by concentrating treatments to create a "sponge" of people who cannot catch or thereby pass on the disease to cordon off and then attenuate outbreaks before they become epidemic in your sector.
I am confident that FEMA can do this without a hitch...............
The joker is that there is no evidence Tamiflu will stop avian strains of influenza anyway. The way to survive avian flu is get away from other people, wear a mask, wash your hands, and keep the kids who are too young to follow sanitary procedure home.
posted by
majroj
on November 25, 2005 at 10:17 PM
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Switzerland
posted by
terpgirl30
on November 10, 2005 at 11:23 PM
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Switzerland
posted by
terpgirl30
on November 10, 2005 at 11:22 PM
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okay, which country?
posted by
FactorFiction
on November 10, 2005 at 8:18 PM
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