"We hope this will result in the creation of a new flu drug, " he said.
Health officials had returned to Edgar's sample only after cases of the new flu strain were spotted around the country.
When a new flu virus pops up, "we immediately begin to think about the process of making a vaccine, " Bresee said.
Even though the regular seasonal flu vaccine contains a strain of the A-flu virus group, it will not prevent you from getting sick if you come in contact with the new flu strain.
The news came as officials in the United States and Mexico, where the outbreak of the H1N1 virus started, were voicing hope that the worst of the new flu strain may be over.
Flu viruses can swap genes with each other, so if someone carrying a human flu virus catches the new bird flu, the two strains could mingle inside the victim's body, creating a new, highly contagious and lethal human plague.
Bresee said he is not equating this new H3N2 flu with the 2009 flu, but a new H3N2 vaccine is in the early stages of development and clinical trials are expected later this year.
The World Health Organization says there have now been five deaths in China from a new bird flu virus.
And McDonald says the club have no new swine flu cases to report.
His microblog is among a number of sites that have been tracking the government's response to the new bird flu.
Even if an outbreak of a new human flu strain were quickly contained, it could still have drastic economic consequences.
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China has begun a mass slaughter of poultry at a market in Shanghai, after a new bird flu virus was detected there.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the new swine flu vaccine for use in the United States on September 15, 2009.
In an interview with CNN's Richard Quest, Witty said the new swine flu vaccine will likely be a boost to sales into 2010.
Media in China are calling on the authorities to release timely information on a new bird flu outbreak that has already claimed two lives.
Health authorities are testing a family infected by H7N9 in Shanghai for human-to-human transmission of the new bird flu strain, The Beijing News reports.
Speculation over Beijing's stance on North Korea, new bird flu cases, more discoveries of poisoned livestock and a dockers' strike are topping headlines in China's media today.
The new bird flu virus outbreak continues to dominate media headlines, as China Central Television reports 14 diagnosed cases and five deaths in the Yangtze River Delta region.
Since China reported the first human infections of the new bird flu virus, known as H7N9, on March 31, authorities have had to compete with the online rumor mill.
While researchers haven't developed a vaccine to fight the new swine flu, it can be treated with antiviral drugs Tamiflu and Relenza, the same drugs used on the regular flu.
An NHS spokesman said the two new swine flu cases in London - a 23-year-old man from Islington and a 29-year-old man from Westminster - were also being successfully treated at home.
Malaysia will only resume imports of China's poultry when China is able to contain the new avian flu subtype and is declared free from the strain, Nazahiyah Sulaiman, spokeswoman at Malaysia's Department of Veterinary Services (DVS) said.
Chan said she would recommend that vaccine manufacturers proceed with mass production of an inoculation against the new swine flu strain as soon as they finish production of seasonal vaccine, which she estimated would be complete in about two weeks.
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That fell dramatically so that by the 10th week of flu season, around New Years, the flu was gone.
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New York State has already made the new H1N1 swine flu shots mandatory for health care workers.
So far, the new, deadlier flu strains exist only in laboratories, of course.
Also, says Bocchini, this is a new strain of flu, and no one in the population would be expected to be immune.
Chinese scientists are concerned over whether the new H7N9 bird flu will mutate and pose a bigger threat, Global Times reports.
The deaths were not caused by an epidemic or the new H7N9 bird flu strain, and nearby chemical factories were being investigated, they added.
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