Obviously, drug companies like Pfizer, GlaxoSmithkline, and Eli Lilly cannot manufacture a drug-based vaccine that immunizes the body against suicidal behavior.
"The technology has advanced in recent years to a point that we believe it could help meet a surge in demand for U.S.-based vaccine for seasonal and pandemic flu, " HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said in a statement last week.
More distantly, about 20 HIV vaccines are currently in clinical trials, according to the New York-based AIDS Vaccine Initiative (IAVI).
But the vaccinia-based Smallpox vaccine had been used previously to vaccinate hundreds of millions of people worldwide for generations and eliminated the scourge of Smallpox with very few side effects and very few fatalities.
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But work has already started to produce a vaccine based on just one single type of "B" meningitis.
"Each one of those countries is free to approve our vaccine based on their own standards and approval by their regulatory authorities, " Adams said.
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We used special silicone molds produced by our collaborators at THeraject to create the microneedles containing a dried version of a live modified adenovirus-based candidate HIV vaccine in the sugar formulation.
Every year, epidemiologists watch the flu trends moving across the globe and create a new vaccine based on what we expect to see in the US. This year, they had a good match.
National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act of 1986 (the Vaccine Act), allowing state-court judgments against a vaccine manufacturer based on an alleged design defect would wholly undermine the preservation of a robust childhood vaccine market.
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The vaccine, based on research done at Duke and Johns Hopkins, and produced by Pfizer, is called CDX-110.
How well the vaccine works can vary based on your age and health, as well as how good the "match" of the vaccine is to this year's flu strain.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration might not be willing to put a vaccine on the market based on such limited data.
In many ways, it seems that the vaccine may help with smoking cessation, but more practically along with medications and other cognitive based therapies to help reinforce any gains made by the vaccine on a biochemical level.
Joseph Kim of Inovio, an American start-up, says his firm has devised a DNA-based method to produce a universal flu vaccine.
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The Chinese State Food and Drug Administration (SFDA) last week approved two factories to produce the vaccine -- Sinovac, based in Beijing, and Hualan Biological Engineering, based in Henan -- according to the Post.
Melbourne-based company CSL Ltd. plans to test a vaccine for the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, on 240 volunteers, a company representative said.
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Merck and Aventis will immediately start giving booster shots based on Aventis' current version of the canarypox vaccine to 90 or more patients who have already participated in a test of Merck's adenovirus vaccine.
Doctors have to spend more time educating parents about the tremendous benefit of vaccines, about the very strong evidence (based on tens of millions of doses) for vaccine safety, and about the frightening consequences of infection with meningitis, hepatitis, measles, polio, and other vaccine-preventable diseases.
Scientists at MVP - a partnership between the World Health Organization and the Seattle-based Program for Appropriate Technology in Health - believe their vaccine could help to save thousands of lives each year.
"These vaccines now have been used in a significant number of countries ... and based on this experience, in which millions of people have now received vaccine, we in fact see that these vaccines are very safe, " he said.
Vaccine companies are making vaccine types for both seasonal flu and H1N1 flu without this mercury-based preservative.
The flu vaccine is comprised of killed or inactivated virus (three most likely strains of flu virus based on predictions from the previous flu season).
The ruling came from a panel of "special masters" who began hearing three test cases in 2007 involving children with autism -- a disorder that their parents contend was triggered by the vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella combined with vaccines containing thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative.
On Tuesday, British-based pharmaceuticals giant GlaxoSmithKline announced it had signed contracts with nine governments to provide 96 million doses of a H1N1 vaccine and was in ongoing discussions with governments to provide further supplies.
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