Sentences with phrase «making seasonal flu vaccine»

In addition to growth problems with the virus, Hall noted that one vaccine maker is still making seasonal flu vaccine and has yet to switch over to production of the novel H1N1 product.

Not exact matches

With no head in place to hoard the immune response, the vaccine might coax the body to make enough stem - focused antibodies to protect against flu, the researchers hoped, regardless of the seasonal mutations occurring at the top.

It will enable manufacturers to rapidly create and make available vaccines for the seasonal flu and pandemic outbreaks.

If there is such sustained transmission, versus imported cases from people who traveled to areas where the virus is circulating, several decisions would need to be made, Hartl said, including whether to switch production from the vaccine for seasonal flu to the one for pandemic flu, and whether to ramp up production of antivirals.

While this year's vaccine is a much better match to the circulating seasonal strains of influenza, the shifty nature of the virus and the need to pick the viruses used to make global vaccine stocks well before the onset of the flu season can make vaccine strain selection a shot in the dark.

During the 2014 - 15 flu season, the poor match between the virus used to make the world's vaccine stocks and the circulating seasonal virus yielded a vaccine that was less than 20 percent effective.

When flu researchers learned about this new sugar - adorned H3N2 virus in 2014, they made sure to include that strain in the 2016 — 17 seasonal flu vaccine so that immunized individuals would mount an immune response against it.

This raises concerns that seasonal flu vaccine, which some companies are still making, may be useless when the northern hemisphere's flu season arrives later this year.