[Marco van Herwaarden]

Originally Posted by Wayne Luke

I suspect there will be a shortage of Flu shots this fall. Get yours early.

Let's hope that Tamiflu will still be effective in the fall when the flu season starts. There are already cases of a resistent variant. Also please note that Tamiflu is only effective (if at all) during the first 48 hours if being sick. You can not take it to prevent you get sick, you can only use it after you got sick, and within 48 hours, to mitigate the symptoms. Worst case scenario would be that by the time the flu season starts, most of those infected with the H1N1 will have a resistant variation and Tamiflu would be useless.

As of now there is no vacination against the H1N1 flu and a vacin is not expected until the end of this year.

PS A big difference between normal flu and the current H1N1 seems to be that where the normal flu infects mostly (or at least to such a level that doctor intervention is needed) are the elder and the weak. The H1N1 infected more "strong" people, ie. youth and younger healthy adults.