While drug makers to prepare in anticipation of a possible outbreak of swine influenza vaccine this fall, one of the issues that remain to be resolved whether the shots contain adjuvants.
"This is what allows the immune system to respond to a higher degree of efficiency," said Dr. David Fedson, former professor of medicine at the University of Virginia and former medical director of pharmaceutical company Aventis Pasteur.
Adjuvants may include various forms of aluminum and is usually used in combination with other vaccines in the United States, including vaccination against hepatitis A and B, diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib). Adjuvant to the vaccine in an influenza pandemic would be a mixture of water and oil.
With these different vaccines, doctors hope to reduce the vaccine itself acknowledged that this is necessary.
"This is what allows the immune system to respond to a higher degree of efficiency," said Dr. David Fedson, former professor of medicine at the University of Virginia and former medical director of pharmaceutical company Aventis Pasteur.
Adjuvants may include various forms of aluminum and is usually used in combination with other vaccines in the United States, including vaccination against hepatitis A and B, diphtheria-tetanus-pertussis and Haemophilus influenzae type b (Hib). Adjuvant to the vaccine in an influenza pandemic would be a mixture of water and oil.
With these different vaccines, doctors hope to reduce the vaccine itself acknowledged that this is necessary.
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