swine flu

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Is it possible that the H1N1 vaccine was already formulated years before 2009? Were the manufacturers and government agencies simply looking and/or fabricating an opportunity to bring it to market?

If not, did the manufacturers follow the established FDA protocol to bring it to market? How many months or years does it take to bring a vaccination to market? Why are they (government agencies and manufacturers) pushing so strongly and so fast to get people vaccinated? Does last year lost in Wall Street have anything to do with the push? Is it mainly economics?More »

News Story

06/29/2009

U.S. health officials indicated they are considering a swine flu immunization campaign that could involve an unprecedented 600 million doses of vaccine. Still to be worked out is finding enough health-care workers to administer all those shots, and determining ways to record side effects if the vaccine is given at the same time as the seasonal flu vaccine.More »

06/17/2009

June 17: Schoolchildren could be first in line for swine flu vaccine this fall — and schools are being put on notice that they might even be turned into shot clinics, commented Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius. She is urging school superintendents around the country to spend the summer preparing for that possibility, if the government goes ahead with mass vaccinations.More »

06/15/2009

GENEVA (AFP) – A Swiss pharmaceutical giant said it has a swine flu vaccine ready for trial as governments stepped up precautions to counter the newly-declared influenza pandemic.More »

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