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...large extent. Liverpool is fine, and Marburg is almost fine. We should be able to sell 35 million doses of flu vaccine this year--which is a huge increase...
...very interesting meningitis vaccine and an H5N1-flu-pandemic vaccine, which we're working on in clinical trials. Then we have the new cell-culture-based vaccine technology, which we have developed in Germany, and it's basically ready; we need regulatory approval. We're building a very large cell-based manufacturing plant in North Carolina...
...World events can also play a role; avian flu, if it begins to spread from human to human on a large scale, instead of from bird to human, could cause upwards of 1 million deaths according to some estimates - and that's getting the attention of life insurance companies, Graham says. "That's the biggest event we're watching, much more than terrorism...
...inquisitor. Working with one of the most highly regarded staffs on Capitol Hill, he has spent the past eight years churning out some 2,000 headline-grabbing reports, blasting the Bush Administration and the Republican Congress on everything from faulty prewar intelligence and flaws in missile defense to the flu-vaccine shortage and arsenic in drinking water...
...thing, we can take the time to learn more about the real odds. Baruch Fischhoff, professor of social and decision sciences at Carnegie Mellon University, recently asked a panel of 20 communications and finance experts what they thought the likelihood of human-to-human transmission of avian flu would be in the next three years. They put the figure at 60%. He then asked a panel of 20 medical experts the same question. Their answer: 10%. "There's reason to be critical of experts," Fischhoff says, "but not to replace their judgment with laypeople's opinions...