Here’s a blog trying to keep up with the news, too.

Thankyew. That’s a really good source. Not a whole lot of good news, is there?

Not for avian flu.  A local biotech has a vaccine for West Nile that’s doing well in Phase III trials, but we’ve known a fair bit about that one for a while.  Avian flu is still pretty new.

Some of my friends were just talking about this last week.
Then again, I kind of keep an eye on news about infectious diseases…
Though I try not to as much as I used to… I used to be much moreso.

It is kind of scary.

But then even if it was heavily publicized… There would be panic among a bunch sure, but there’d still be so many people with the “it won’t happen to me” attitude.

I guess it depends on who you refer to as a source. Some say there isn’t much of anything we can do. Others think not enough has been done. I really don’t know. But it seems that everyone agrees that it’s coming. The severity is the only question mark. Hopefully this bug will mutate or recombine with something less virulent and we’ll dodge the bullet this time. But it should be a wake-up call, nevertheless, that our vaccine making abilities fall far short of where they need to be. This, I would argue, is the ideal place for government to step in. Vaccine making isn’t a money making proposition for drug companies. This is an area where profit shouldn’t be the motivation for doing it.

Yeah well there are plenty of people who die every day, or at the least become disabled, (in the U.S. too), needlessly, from various things, because the pharmaceutical companies don’t see curing them as profitable.  And the government doesn’t do anything about that.  :(