Now an attorney
for vaccine maker Seqirus in Cambridge, Massachusetts, he called the MedImmune layoffs «the best thing that happened to me.»
And like SARS, the MERS virus seems likely to pose problems
for vaccine makers, says Peter Hotez of the Baylor College of Medicine in Houston, Texas, who last year formed a non-profit partnership to make a SARS vaccine.
Not exact matches
In the United States,
for example, a trust fund protects
vaccine makers from being destroyed by lawsuits while also compensating patients who fall ill from them.
In addition,
vaccine -
makers that use eggs can not begin developing new
vaccines that target new virus strains until the U.S. Centers
for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) creates a live - virus reference strain
for these companies to work with, a process that could take several weeks.
The group partnered with governments and
vaccine makers to conduct trials outside of the U.S., which now account
for nearly half of the 30 - plus trials currently underway.
Vaccine makers have added a pertussis component to that booster, so next time youre due
for your Td booster request the Tdap.