RE: Gas Mask recommendations? (Was Re: Biowar link)

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Date: Fri Oct 05 2001 - 22:44:33 MDT


There is some evidence the drug ribavirin may be effective against hanta.
http://www.science.mcmaster.ca/Biology/Virology/16/riba.htm

> > While anthrax can be treated with a vaccine (as can smallpox, of
> > course), hanta has no vaccine at this point, so far as I know. Anybody
> > know different?
>
> Hanta has no vaccine that I'm aware of. However, even in regions where it
> thrives, it is a pretty rare type of infection.



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