We were alarmed to find such a dramatic increase in drug resistance in circulating human influenza viruses in recent years. Our report has broad implications for agencies and governments planning to stockpile these drugs for epidemic and pandemic strains of influenza.

We were alarmed to find such a dramatic increase in drug resistance in circulating human influenza viruses in recent years.

[Despite that, and the fact that those viruses have been circulating in China for a dozen years, almost no human-to-human spread has occurred.] The virus has been around for more than a dozen years, but it hasn't jumped into the human population, ... I don't think it has the capability of doing it.

Viruses have no morality, no sense of good and evil, the deserving or the undeserving.... AIDS is not the swift sword with which the Lord punishes the evil practitioners of male homosexuality and intravenous drug use. It is simply an opportunistic virus that does what it has to do to stay alive.

There are two exploits circulating.

Any operating system is impervious to viruses. It's just harder to do (to a Mac), it doesn't mean it can't be done.