Infectious disease: can we avert a lethal flu pandemic?

Curr Biol. 2005 Nov 22;15(22):R922-4. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2005.10.063.

Abstract

If avian flu becomes directly transmissible among humans, could we prevent a pandemic by using prophylactic antivirals? Possibly, if the virus is not too transmissible, and we react fast and efficiently.

Publication types

  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Acetamides / therapeutic use
  • Animals
  • Antiviral Agents / therapeutic use
  • Bird Diseases / epidemiology
  • Bird Diseases / virology*
  • Birds
  • Chemoprevention / methods
  • Computer Simulation
  • Disease Outbreaks / prevention & control*
  • Humans
  • Influenza A Virus, H5N1 Subtype*
  • Influenza in Birds / epidemiology*
  • Influenza in Birds / transmission
  • Influenza, Human / epidemiology*
  • Influenza, Human / prevention & control
  • Models, Theoretical*
  • Oseltamivir
  • Zoonoses / transmission*

Substances

  • Acetamides
  • Antiviral Agents
  • Oseltamivir