Not exact matches
It's also a stark contrast to today's egg - based technology, which takes about six months to produce a mere 100 million
doses, according to Alan Shaw, CEO of VaxInnate, a
company at the forefront of bacteria - based
vaccine production.
PATH found a Chinese
company that had created a single -
dose vaccine and worked with the firm to reduce the cost to about 25 cents.
The method is much less cumbersome than dealing with chicken eggs, and because the
vaccine is so easy to produce, the
company intends to use 135 micrograms of hemagglutinin in each
dose of
vaccine — 3 times higher than current flu
vaccines — in hopes of getting better protection.
University of Tübingen researchers in collaboration with the biotech
company Sanaria Inc. have demonstrated in a clinical trial that a new
vaccine for malaria called Sanaria ® PfSPZ - CVac has been up to 100 percent effective when assessed at 10 weeks after last
dose of
vaccine.
A promising sign, Fu says, is that at least 15
companies are now producing human rabies
vaccines for as low as $ 15 per
dose through modern techniques.
The new backbone could help streamline annual
vaccine production, which could be especially relevant during a pandemic, notes Kawaoka's group, when the sudden emergence of novel strains forces
companies to rapidly make millions of
doses of a new
vaccine.
How fast can
companies make millions of
vaccine doses?
By September five pharmaceutical
companies had promised to produce 250 million
doses of 2009 H1N1
vaccines, and experts assured the public that these inoculations were safe.
In dogs it has been demonstrated that when intranasal Bordetella bronchiseptica
vaccines are used for initial vaccination and injectable
vaccines are used for subsequent
doses, immune responses may be improved.3, 4 Similar techniques combining oral and injectable
vaccines have been demonstrated to provide a more robust immune response in humans.5 Zoetis is excited to be the only
company to offer veterinarians the capability to use this concept for vaccination of their canine patients against B.bronchiseptica.