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To: tallhappy
There is no question that a vaccine would be the ideal solution.

Until that time, however, we need agents that will mitigate the course of this disease in the more severely affected.

As to influenza:

Amantadine and rimantadine interfere with the fusion function of hemagglutinin, (a necessary step during viral penetration of host cells).

When used to treat active influenza A disease, amantadine or
rimantadine will shorten the clinical course.
20 posted on 06/18/2003 7:32:43 AM PDT by Logical Extinction (Reality is often much more frightening than fiction...)
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To: Logical Extinction
Are most FI's screened? Or are people trying to design them?

Have all the local anesthetics and related ion channel binding molecules been screened?

21 posted on 06/18/2003 10:05:08 AM PDT by tallhappy
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