Tuesday, August 18, 2009

Swine Flu Vaccine is not enough in USA

The U.S. is not nearly as much of classical swine fever vaccine prepared in mid-October in time, 45 million doses, instead of the planned 120 million, said a federal official.

It is not at fault, but the delay, Health and Human Services spokesman Bill Hall said. Shortly after the fire, more than 20 million doses, which will be sent each week, until the Government has subscribed to 195 million doses of a comprehensive, he said.

But the October deficit, the problems associated with the production, extended by one month of effort to get high risk people vaccinated against a new strain of influenza. The first line should be pregnant women, children and health care professionals, followed by the flu in younger adults, the risk of conditions such as asthma.

Waiting to start vaccination campaigns for about 15 October, however, said Hall. Just to be smaller than originally planned, which is the supply of drip in slow motion.

"Why are we not going to wait for? How to deliver the vaccine. We can not be part of it," said Hall.

The government has long insisted he was confident that this figure is 120 million doses, even at the end of July manufacturers around the world showed them, which is a serious problem brewing shots. The main ingredient is grown in chicken eggs, and the companies get 30 percent of the usual dose of eggs, as they do with the regular winter flu vaccine.

Health officials are working to resolve this problem, giving the producer of virus strains grow best wishes. The recently discovered the problem is the bottleneck to obtain the vaccine in large vats are syringes for the delivery of them, because a limited number of so-called fill and finish facilities, said Hall.

Another delay in the development of tests to verify that they are in the right dose before they have the skills to use force. The problem is that the swine flu vaccine and no vaccine against regular winter flu.

Unlike his cousin again, the regular flu is risky for elderly. These vaccines have been from some parts of the country, and there is ample supply of seasonal vaccines. What swine fever - also known as the H1N1 flu virus family - around 160 million people, groups, vaccination priorities.

But health officials do not expect that much demand, in particular, therefore, that while the flu can kill the pigs, for most people seems to be a milder illness than influenza. Traditionally, only about 40 per cent of the persons recommended for influenza vaccine to make a regular basis.

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