Swiss become the first to bulk buy pre-pandemic bird flu vaccine
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Date: 2006-10-19 19:47:00
Swiss become the first to bulk buy pre-pandemic bird flu vaccine
... apparently ordered enough of an experimental bird flu vaccine to inoculate it's entire population.In so doing the Swiss have become the first country to bulk buy a supply of GlaxoSmithKline's bird flu vaccine for humans.In trials earlier this year the vaccine demonstrated a more than 80 percent strong immune response in test subjects.The vaccine has an extra ingredient in the vaccine formulation which is designed to increase the immunogenicity of the vaccine as well as potentially offering protection against variant virus strains.According to E ...
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