Via ProMED-mail: as this flu season draws to a messy end,
Scientific American blogs about the prospects for a swine flu (Influenza A H1N1 etc.) vaccine for next season.
Reuters reports that the WHO is optimistic about such a shift, although it is unclear what impact swine flu will have on regular seasonal flu vaccine production.
Marie-Paule Kieny, WHO director of the initiative for vaccine research, said the agency is discussing with drug companies whether and when to stop making seasonal flu vaccine production and shift to making one for the new H1N1 strain.
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