Friendly Advice

Experts agree we're overdue to a flu pandemic. The most likely candidate pathogen is bird flu, which is already going around southeast Asia. Bird flu is scary because it kills healthy adults, inducing a cytokine storm in which your own immune system takes you down. Flu vaccine may or not not prevent it.

Believe it or not, there is a medicine that works against bird flu (and most other known strains). It's called Tamiflu, and your doctor can prescribe it. My advice is to get a couple doses for the cupboard.

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