Reply #10: I know...I stopped reading this post because there were so many...

[CoffeeCat]

medical and factual errors in it--that I couldn't take it seriously.

President Bush is not "buying up vaccine". There is no vaccine against bird flu.

Also, everyone in the medical community (and many that don't have medical training!) understand that Tamiflu does NOT PREVENT BIRD FLU! The person who wrote this email is making the case that "some scientists" say that Tamiflu won't prevent bird flu.

No one says it will. No one makes that claim.

Tamiflu, in many studies on mice, was shown to impede (or slow down) the spread of the flu--once you all ready have it. Tamiflu is widely understood and known in the medical community as a drug that helps to shorten the time a person has the flu--and it may lessen symptoms. My own doctor told me this also--when I got my Tamiflu Rx last month.

I do not take seriously the email from this person.

I've been reading for 18 months about bird flu--lots of scientific and medical articles/journals. I know more than this person--and I am certainly not a professional.

I urge EVERYONE to PLEASE do your own research. Everyone here is an independent thinker. So please--read the research. Dig in.

I have to say---this email is not something I would take seriously and it greatly concerns me that anyone would.