If officials decide to produce a vaccine, the first doses would be ready early in the fall.
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Supplies of flu vaccine have also been ordered and the first doses could be administered in the autumn.
However, it would likely take months to produce the first doses.
Then all 31 patients in the first trial of high doses of the drug went into remission, and Vasella realized he had something extraordinary in hand.
Parents are being urged to make sure their children have the required two doses of the MMR vaccine - the first at 12 months and the second dose at around three years and four months.
The Department of Health and Human Services has said limited doses should be available in the first week of October, with the bulk of the vaccine starting to arrive October 15.
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First, the patient is given oral doses of hormones to mildly stimulate her ovaries.
In many states, the initial doses of nasal spray will be directed first to health care workers.
The first gives about 95% protection against measles, while two doses gives 99-100% protection.
WHO's global stockpile of Tamiflu (about 3m doses) could be deployed to the site of first emergence of a pandemic strain and used to eliminate it at source.
The WHO says this happens in one in 2.5 million first doses of vaccine.
At first, many analysts expected that the main constraint on sales would be how many doses MedImmune could make.
Friedhoff and Buxbaum have shown two things: First, they showed that lovastatin could prevent cells from making beta amyloid in the test tube in doses that could be realistically given to patients.
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