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Pandemic flu and opportunistic bacteria

Posted on October 13, 2008

Via Mike the Mad Biologist, some good points: Influenza: Preparing for the follow-on bacteria. Excerpt:As I've mentioned before, bacterial vaccines are critical in limiting influenza-related deaths, and we don't use them the way we should.What's frustrating about our lack of a coherent influenza policy--which is even more obvious in our inability to combat the annual influenza epidemic--is that we know what to do and how to do it: vaccination and stockpiling antibiotics. Yet, as a nation, we are politically incapable of doing so. All of that anti-vax garbage doesn't help either. More maddening...

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