[va4me]

there is no evidence that Tamiflu would be of any use against a human form of H51.

[vrwc0915]

ahh the glorious central planners, stupid peasants we will tell you what you need!

[Altair333]

"there is no evidence that Tamiflu would be of any use against a human form of H51."

Yes there is. It has been effective against most (but not all) forms of the bird form of H51. Any human form of H51 will more likely than not come from the majority of strains of H51 that have been effectively treated by Tamiflu. And yes, there's a chance the mutation will cause Tamiflu to lose effectiveness, but there's also a very good chance that it won't.

Do you think all these nations all over the world are frantically stocking up on Tamiflu because they know it won't work?

[DManA]

There is no human form of a human form of H5N1. At least not a form that you have to sleep with a duck to get. We're waiting for H5N1 to mutate randomly into an easily transmittable and just as virulent form. Course since it's completely random, and there are billions of possible recombinations most of which won't hurt us, it may never occur.

Course again there are trillions of other virus' out there that could by chance morph into killers to.

Awfully lot of wild speculation to deal with here.