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>Karena pentingnya masalah ini alias outbreak pendemik flu burung >diramalkan oleh para expert akan menewaskan ratusan sampai jutaan orang >di dunia. Saya kira penting juga untuk membawakan berita yg menjanjikan >plus menyegarkan bahwa kita sbg manusia akan mampu melawan virus flu >burung tersebut. Seluruh dunia berlomba mencoba anti dosis virus >tersebut dan Percobaan terhadap manusia sedang dilaksanakan bulan ini di >Australia terhadap 400 orang sukarelawan. > >Wishing very good luck for them and God bless us all. Cheers, Arry Kusnadi. > >Australian firm to start trials of bird flu vaccine >Thu Sep 22, 2005 05:54 PM ET ><http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=9732916&src=rss/healthNews>http://go.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=healthNews&storyID=9732916&src=rss/healthNews > >CANBERRA (Reuters) - Australian company CSL Ltd will begin human trials >of a bird flu vaccine next month as the government warned travelers on >Thursday about an outbreak of the deadly virus in parts of Asia. > >CSL is the world's top maker of human plasma products and spokeswoman >Rachel David said the vaccine against the H5N1 strain of avian flu would >be tested on 400 human volunteers. Results are expected by the end of the year. > >Bird flu has killed a confirmed 64 people in Asia since late 2003. >Indonesia is suffering an outbreak of the disease, which has killed at >least four people while 11 are under observation in hospital with bird >flu-like symptoms. > >The Australian government gave CSL A$5 million in July to fast-track >development of a vaccine. > >"What we're testing in the trials is the dose that we need to use for >the vaccine to be effective. The technology is tried and true but what >we need to find out with this completely new strain is whether the doses >we are using are effective," David said. > >She said if the tests were successful then the vaccine could be rushed >into production if needed. > >"In an emergency, if the dose that we tested was successful and the >strain remains the same, it would take us three months to produce 40 >million doses. We would start to get the product out of the factory >within six weeks," she said. > >The most advanced bird flu vaccine is one developed by France's >Sanofi-Aventis, which has proved effective at stimulating an immune >system response in healthy adults. > >"That used an enormous dose of antigen. In fact, the dose of antigen was >so large that we wouldn't even go down that path because it would just >take too long to make," David said. Antigen is the key vaccine component >that triggers an immune response. > >"Essentially we are all sharing information so that whoever comes up >with the preferred process can share the information as quickly as >possible." > >U.S.-based Chiron Corp. aims to test its H5N1 vaccine later this year >and Britain's GlaxoSmithKline Plc plans large-scale clinical trials in >2006. > >The Australian government reissued a flood of travel warnings for Asia >to alert Australians to the bird flu outbreak. > >The H5N1 strain first emerged in Hong Kong in 1997, where it killed six >people, and surfaced again on the Korean peninsula in 2003. > >It has since been found in birds in Cambodia, China, Indonesia, Japan, >Kazakhstan, Laos, Malaysia, Mongolia, Philippines, Russia, Taiwan, >Thailand and Vietnam. > >© Reuters 2005. All Rights Reserved. > > >Arry Kusnadi wrote: >Kalau dilihat dari pernyataan Federal Health Minister Tony Abbott >dibawah itu vaksin Anti Flu Burung (baca: bukan vaksin flu biasa) untuk >manusia masih dalam tahap trial atau percobaan. Bila berhasil akan >diproduksi massal oleh company yg bernama CSL. Dari teman di oz, share >price CSL di Australia langsung naik 40 per cent! saat ini. So far >vaccin yg sedang dikembangkan dikatakan terlihat menjanjikan dan tidak >ada "serius" efek samping. dan saat ini sedang diuji dgn burung yg >terkena flu di Yunani. > >Jadi preventive action yg bakal dilakukan supaya manusia kebal terhadap >virus flu burung itu. Manusia di oz kira2 20 juta orang so dosisnya >bakal 20 juta juga minimum - bayangkan itu company spt dapat durian runtuh. > >Ada teman tadi yg email: pemerintah oz belum kena flu burung sudah >kebakaran jenggot n aksi sana sini, pemerintah indonesia sudah kena flu >burung dan ada yg tewas masih adem ayem saja. > >Pernyataan yg wajar tapi untuk kasus Indonesia dimana ada 220 juta >penduduk jelas distribution nightmare n belum lagi biayanya plus jgn >lupa adalah yg paling susah itu minta penduduk untuk disuntik secara >sukarela! Kesadaran untuk ini belum ada dan terlalu berpasrah kepada >Tuhan only. Bisa saya bayangkan oz bakal menyiapkan perangkap hukum >wajib vaccin sebelum vaccin itu diluncurkan kira2 tahun depan mengingat >ini adalah penyakit pandemik. > >Sistemnya memang sederhana: supaya satu bangsa selamat, bangsa itu harus >seluruhnya isinya di vaccin suka atau tidak suka. >Sistem sederhana ini bisa dilakukan sepanjang di negara itu memang ada >dosis yg sama jumlahnya dgn penduduknya plus distribusi yg luar biasa >dan kesadaran penduduk yg tinggi akan takut mati sia2 n duit yg segunung >tentunya. > >Regards, >Arry Kusnadi [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] ------------------------ Yahoo! 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