None of
the available swine flu vaccines can protect against all these strains.
Not exact matches
Phase II trials for that
vaccine candidate are set to begin within the next two months, so it will not likely be
available to combat the current
swine flu outbreak, which could kill as many as 90,000 Americans and land up to 1.8 million in the hospital, according to the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST).
Professor Van Tam said:» «The 2009
swine flu pandemic was the first in human history when pandemic
vaccines have been
available worldwide.
FDA says the first
swine flu vaccines will become
available within the next 4 weeks, although the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services expects its first major shipment of product to arrive on 15 October.
It is now predicting a 70 percent likelihood that there will not be enough H1N1
vaccine available to hit government targets until at least December, and a a more than 90 percent probability that more than half of U.S.
flu cases this season will be
swine flu.