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True, the Senate has approved $3.9 billion in spending to increase “preparedness” for a flu outbreak, but this is about half the amount spent on the conflict in Iraq in a single month. Last Friday, the White House invited vaccine makers to discuss increased production...
How prepared are we for all that? Not very. To its credit, this Administration has struggled to get ahead of the curve. Former Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson considered influenza among his highest priorities. In his last speech as Secretary, he called it his gravest concern. Under him...
That problem highlighted a weakness in the vaccine-production infrastructure, which, as public-health expert Michael Osterholm says, "is our levee system against a catastrophic event." But even in a perfect world, virtually no vaccine would be available for the first six months of a pandemic. And the Administration has...
In the end, the best course of action is not to treat this sort of flu but to prevent it. Preliminary results, released in August, of an experimental vaccine against bird flu suggest that a high-dose vaccine given in two shots a month apart would yield the best response...
ON THE HORIZON: THE FIRST CANCER VACCINE A large-scale trial found Merck's experimental vaccine Gardasil 100% effective against two strains of human papillomavirus thought to cause 70% of all cervical cancers. If FDA approved, it may arrive in 2006.