Swine Flu

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[WilcoWorld]

I'm hoping for an updated, non-Guillan Barre-inducing vaccine by fall. I know the H1N1 has been sequenced already, but does anyone here know what the timeline is on getting a vaccine?

 

[emtcsmith]

I'm just a simple street medic but how often would you typically treat the flu with antibiotics? I thought that by doing that we created the "super flu" strains or am I totally off here.

 

[Jeff698]

I'm just a simple street medic but how often would you typically treat the flu with antibiotics? I thought that by doing that we created the "super flu" strains or am I totally off here.

The academic answer is "why, never! I'd never do such a thing as treating a viral infection with antibiotics".

The real answer is more often than you'd expect. I can't see any mechanism for creating a super flu, although you can certainly make arguments for creating super bacteria.

There are two reasons doctors treat viral infections with antibiotics:

1) diagnostic uncertainty
2) patient expectations


Hope this helps.

Take care,
Jeff

 

[Stitch]

I'm hoping for an updated, non-Guillan Barre-inducing vaccine by fall. I know the H1N1 has been sequenced already, but does anyone here know what the timeline is on getting a vaccine?

Even if they started making vaccine now, it would take months to attenuate the virus or test the killed virus and months more to mass produce it. A generous time scale would be late fall. But I think that's generous.