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Companies Could Vaccinate 4.9 Billion Against H1N1 — WHO
GENEVA, May 19 (Reuters) — Companies could potentially turn out 4.9 billion doses of vaccine against the new H1N1 influenza strain within a year under the best-case scenario, World Health Organization officials said on Tuesday.
WHO Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan told reporters after a meeting with 30 pharmaceutical companies that WHO was working to secure supplies of vaccine for poor countries in case of a pandemic. U.S. health officials said they were finding higher-than-expected numbers of cases of seasonal influenza still circulating and worried that ... more »
U.S. Officials Consider Bumping Up
Flu Shot Season
WASHINGTON, May 20 (Reuters) — U.S. health officials said on Wednesday they are considering starting the vaccination campaign for seasonal flu earlier this year to make room for a possible second round of shots against the new H1N1 flu.
The United States also reported its eighth death from the new swine flu virus, in a patient in Arizona.
"If possible we do want to have an earlier rollout of seasonal vaccine," Dr Daniel Jernigan of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention told reporters in a telephone briefing.
He said the CDC would... more »
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