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Pandemic Flu Seattle's King County could be struck at any time by an earthquake, tsunami or the eruption of nearby Mount Rainier. But the thing that has Eric Holdeman, director of the county's office of emergency management, really worried is the threat of a pandemic flu. "We expect...
"We had hoped the result would be better than this," says Dr. John Treanor of the University of Rochester in New York. But Treanor, who led the study, says he was neither surprised nor discouraged by the result. A previous test of a more experimental avian flu vaccine reached a...
Specifically, the NEJM study showed that it takes 90 micrograms of active ingredient in each of at least two doses of vaccine to get the best result. By contrast, the current seasonal flu vaccine contains 45 micrograms of active ingredient - from three different strains of flu virus - and you need...
Then there is the matter of having the right strains of virus in the vaccine should a human pandemic ever occur. The virus used to make the Sanofi Aventis vaccine came from a Vietnamese patient who was infected with H5N1 in 2004. The viruses from that sample are part of...
At least, however, researchers have established a baseline of what is currently possible and what still needs to be done to create an avian flu vaccine for people. Already there are other studies under way to see if the dosage can be reduced by adding so-called adjuvants - like aluminum...