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Swine Flu Vaccine

Millions of vaccine doses to be burned

About a quarter of the swine flu vaccine produced for the U.S. public has expired — meaning that a whopping 40 million doses worth about $260 million are being written off as trash. “It’s a lot, by historical standards,” said Jerry Weir, who oversees vaccine research and review for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. [...]

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Theraclone Sciences Technology Uncovers Rare Anti-Influenza Antibodies

The newly identified influenza target is on the outer tip of the external portion, or “ectodomain,” of the influenza matrix 2 protein (M2e). Using Theraclone’s I-STAR™ technology, the researchers found rare, naturally occurring, human antibodies in healthy volunteers that targeted this highly conserved part of the influenza virus. When they mass produced the human anti-M2e [...]

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Over 116,000 inoculated against A/H1N1 in Macao

A total of 116,252 people in Macao have been inoculated with the A/H1N1 vaccine so far, Macao’s Health Bureau said on Monday. The Bureau recorded two cases of A/H1N1 flu in the past one week, bringing the total number of such cases to 3,619 since June 18, 2009, of which two patients died. Previously,the Macao [...]

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Vaccines not a Big Pharma priority – so why would they fan pandemic fears?

Believe me, Big Pharma has more and bigger things to make money on than vaccines. Anyone who really believes Big Pharma would drop everything it was doing to go and make vaccine just does not understand how drug companies make their money today. Druf companies see vaccine production as a necessary evil; a component of [...]

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Most Czech swine flu vaccines to be destroyed

Most of the swine flu vaccines the Czech Republic has bought for 220 million crowns will probably be destroyed, only a minor part will be preserved as strategic reserve, Health Minister Dana Juraskova told CTK Friday. The state ordered a supply of one million vaccines, but only less than one percent of the population, 66,000 [...]

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Flu vaccine additives – how do they work

The 2009 H1N1 influenza pandemic has prompted a significant need for the development of efficient, single-dose adjuvanted vaccines. Here we investigated the adjuvant potential of CpG Oligodeoxynucleotide (ODN) when used with human seasonal flu vaccine in ferrets. We found that CpG ODN-adjuvanted vaccine effectively increased antibody production and activated type I interferon (IFN) responses, compared [...]

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Targeting Flu for New Drugs

Enzymatic removal of the sialic acid moiety of HPIV receptors inhibits infection with all tested HPIV strains, both in vitro and in cotton rats. Enzyme-mediated removal of sialic acid receptors represents a novel antiviral strategy for HPIV. The results of this study raise the possibility of a broad spectrum antiviral agent for influenza virus and [...]

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Indian facility to produce 60 million vaccine doses

CPL Biologicals (CPLB), a joint venture of Ahmedabad based Cadila Pharmaceuticals Ltd and US based Novavax Inc has completed construction of its vaccine facility at Dholka near Ahmedabad that can produce up to 60 million doses of vaccines every year. The company said this in an announcement to Nasdaq. A spokesperson of Cadila Pharma confirmed [...]

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Hong Kong to trash 2.8 million swine flu vaccine doses

Health officials in Hong Kong announced on Thursday that they intend to throw away 2.8 million doses of unwanted swine flu vaccines valued at approximately $28.2 million.The vaccines, economictimes.indiatimes.com reports, were part of 3 million doses that were ordered at the height of the H1N1 pandemic last year. The vaccines were offered free to medical [...]

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Child swine flu vaccine trial results

Researchers said 98% of children under three responded well to two doses of the “adjuvanted” vaccine, which contained immunity boosting agents.  The adjuvanted vaccine, also called the split virus vaccine, was the most commonly used on children during the pandemic but was also the most likely to cause side effects such as fever.  Only 80% [...]

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