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...production in 10 to 12 weeks, rather than the usual four to six months. "We have made vaccines against multiple flu strains and tested them in humans and gotten relevant and robust immune responses, which checks off the major boxes that the technology works against flu," says Rahul Singhvi, president and CEO of Novavax...
...robust enough to fight off the actual virus should an immunized person become infected. This is the same way the recently developed vaccine against human papilloma virus, Gardasil, works. "It provides the look and feel of the flu virus but does not have the genetic materials to cause disease," Singhvi says. (Read about the vaccine being prepared in case of a pandemic...
...that the virus doesn't grow well in chicken eggs; that could slash the yield and slow production of a potential new vaccine. "As long as we get the genetic sequence of some viral proteins, it doesn't matter where the virus came from - human, swine or bird," says Singhvi. So far, Novavax's shot is still in the testing phase, but its VLP-based vaccines against seasonal and bird flu are providing good results. The company stands ready to try its strategy against swine flu if needed. "The CDC is aware of what we are doing, and we have...
...moment, however, political leaders are busy culling votes. Writing in the weekly magazine Outlook, Congress party member Abhishek Manu Singhvi pounced immediately, writing, "[The BJP] claims to be a mainstream political party - with its direct members and associates directly linked to terrorism. It gives us homilies on terror and calls us soft on terror, while allowing its own philosophy to preach terror and its own activists to commit terror." The BJP has hinted at a conspiracy by the ruling government to frame the accused for political gains. "A terrorist is a terrorist irrespective of his religion or caste...
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