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Originally posted by WillowIX:
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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.
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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] [/QUOTE]MMM! AZT not really the best analogy there, although HIV mutates so that it avoids the bodies immune systsem, its relatively vulnerable to antiviral therapy: Influenza, corona and picorna viruses mutate far faster and therefore antivirals don't get a chance to do their stuff (this is why there has never been a cure for the common cold, or flu for that matter).