Influenza
Pandemic influenza can be contained with antiviral agents
Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, June 6th, 2004
According to recent research published in the American Journal of Epidemiology, "For the first wave of pandemic influenza or a bioterrorist influenza attack, antiviral agents would be one of the few options to contain the epidemic in the United States until adequate supplies of vaccine were available. The authors use stochastic epidemic simulations to investigate the effectiveness of targeted antiviral prophylaxis to contain influenza. In this strategy, close contacts of suspected index influenza cases take antiviral agents prophylactically.
"The authors compare targeted antiviral...
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