[WillowIX]

Originally posted by realbinky: Pssst, ALL viruses are immune to anti-biotics. Anti-biotics only work on bacterial infections. Viruses are controlled through the use of vaccines that help your cody develop anti-bodies to the virus before it gets to you, so once it does, you can already fight it off. To develop a vaccine, they have to "crack the code" of the virus first.

Quite right. Instead you use antiviral chemotherapy. Plenty of such substances out on the market today, AZT is perhaps the most known. Unfortunately quite a lot of research is needed for the development of these drugs. As for masks, they can be very useful if properly prepared.

As for the poll, I think that shutting down all schools is not the most appealing way of dealing with this. If a child at one school develop symptoms it might be time to shut down that particular school for a while. [img]smile.gif[/img]