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Robert Tusler
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The news this morning that Tamiflu is beginning to run up against a resistant strain of the avian flu virus in humans in Viet Nam is frightening, to say the least. Is there any opportunity for virologists studying avian flu to take advantage of this facility? With the greatest sympathy to AIDS sufferers, this might even be a higher priority!
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Former Member
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WCG might be able to work on it. From a post by mycrofth and Viktors it seems that the project can work on multiple diseases. You can check their posts here on December 9th. The best thing you can do is to forward the link for the proposal page to any scientist or organization working on developing drugs to combat Avian flu.
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Former Member
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I seem to remember a DC project years ago that was run by a now defunct company out of San Francisco called Popular Power.
There project was to calculate more precise vaccines for the normal flu. Whose vaccine has to be reinvented every year. So there are methods out there that study flus that have been used in DC. The scientist running the project was located in the Netherlands I belive. Ciao............. |
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Former Member
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Thom217 is entirely correct. The World Community Grid is dependent on the research scientists recognizing that their study can be adapted to utilize DC and then to submit a proposal.
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