PREGNANT women are at the front of the queue
for swine flu vaccine as distribution starts this month in the US, UK and elsewhere.
With the first trials
for a swine flu vaccine currently underway in Australia, the question of how to produce huge quantities of vaccine quickly has never been more pressing.
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for Christmas after a
vaccine is developed
for swine flu.
PRESIDENT Barack Obama's decision last week to label
swine flu a national emergency will likely increase demand
for a
vaccine that is already in short supply.
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).
Besser said officials were already taking preliminary steps toward manufacturing a
vaccine against the influenza strain responsible
for swine flu.
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VACCINE against the Mexican swine flu sweeping the world is likely to arrive too late for most people, vaccine officials told New Scientist between a flurry of high - level industry meetings thi
VACCINE against the Mexican
swine flu sweeping the world is likely to arrive too late
for most people,
vaccine officials told New Scientist between a flurry of high - level industry meetings thi
vaccine officials told New Scientist between a flurry of high - level industry meetings this week.
The
vaccine industry is waiting
for a WHO decision on whether to keep making regular
flu vaccine, or whether to switch to
vaccines for the current
swine flu outbreak
The U.S. Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention strongly doubts that this year's
flu vaccine will offer people any protection from the
swine flu.
The best strains we have
for a H1N1
swine flu vaccine grow only as half as fast as ordinary
vaccine viruses, meaning poorer nations may not get it in time if there is a second wave
More importantly, Gack found that avian,
swine, and human
flu viruses block TRIM25 to evade immune defense by RIG - I, unraveling a molecular target
for the design of antiviral drugs and
vaccines.
Two
vaccines for swine flu — a nasal spray that contains weakened virus and a shot that contains inactivated virus — were approved in September, but skepticism and worry about such new
vaccines may prevent people from taking advantage of them.
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But I do know that Maths Berlin, who practically invented mercury toxicology, strongly warned against using the mercury - containing version of the
swine flu vaccine for children and pregnant women.