Oh, great.
The much-vaunted bird flu vaccine (Tamiflu) may be a dud, according to bird flu experts. They said this because two people in Vietnam were given the vaccine after being exposed to bird flu, developed a resistance to the drug, got real sick and died. Both had been given "early and aggressive treatment" which makes this very troubling.
Governments around the world are stockpiling Tamiflu like crazy, but it may have a major problem. The low dosage allows the human body to develop defenses against it, leaving it wide-open to invasion from the bird flu that it is supposed to be warding off with the help of the drug.
If this is true, and there is a planet-wide outbreak of bird flu, we (humanity) are SO screwed. Now is not the time to be going back to the drawing board on this. Let's hope and pray that the experts are wrong.
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