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In the race to develop a vaccine for bird flu, Vietnam has been a dark horse with early success. Vietnamese scientists have produced a prototype vaccine for the H5N1 avian-influenza strain and are planning human testing in August?just a few months behind top researchers in the U.S. There...
But the World Health Organization (WHO) and other scientists are worried about Vietnam's vaccine, which they say could itself make people sick, or even set off a pandemic. The problem is that the virus reference seed?the weakened bit of live H5N1 used to build up immunity in the...
CDC spokesman Curtis L. Allen said flu vaccine production, which may take at least six months, can be a tricky business because it requires predicting demand in advance each year.
The nation’s supply of the vaccine was severely constricted on Oct. 5 when British health officials suspended Chrion Corporation’s manufacturing license for three months. The Liverpool-based company is the world’s second largest flu vaccination producer and supplies about half of...
To prevent the possibility of such a vaccination shortage occurring again, the federal government is now subsidizing pharmaceutical companies to encourage them to begin vaccine production.