Re: H5N1 Infection + Antiviral Drug + Recovery ===> Immunity?
- From: "(PeteCresswell)" <a@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 14:35:58 -0700
Per bae@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>Flu vaccines probably don't give you as good or as long-lasting an
>immunity as actually getting the flu
Thanks for the detailed response. "Herd immunity" was a new concept to me.
But It still begs the question of whether somebody who is coming down with the
flu and takes an antiviral gains immunity.
I can see it both ways:
- Either the person's immune system has time to be stimulated and produce the
requisite antibodies... or
- The antiviral does something to the virus so quickly that the person's immune
system doesn't get enough time to identify the virus and produce antibodies.
Given somebody who is very much at risk - as opposed to someone young and in
good health, this would seem to be a critical issue when it comes to a pandemic
and antivirals. In the first case, a single course of the antiviral could
save the person. In the second case, just a single course would only buy time
until the person became re-infected.
--
PeteCresswell
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