Federal health officials say the U.S. has the building blocks to make a vaccine to protect humans from bird flu, if needed. But experts warn we're nowhere near prepared for another pandemic.
Federal health officials say the U.S. has the building blocks to make a vaccine to protect humans from bird flu, if needed. But experts warn we're nowhere near prepared for another pandemic.The federal government says it has taken steps toward developing a vaccine to protect against bird flu should it become a threat to humans.The federal government says it has taken steps toward developing a vaccine to protect against bird flu should it become a threat to humans.
The government also has the raw material to make 10 million additional doses within weeks, plus another 125 million doses within about four months, she said. For example, not enough testing has been done yet to know how well the two candidate vaccines would really work, especially since the virus would have likely changed if it becomes a real threat to people, Osterholm said.And even if an effective vaccine was available, most flu vaccines are still produced with old-fashioned technology that relies on growing virus in eggs — this can take months to make enough and can be unpredictable.
Bright thinks the government should develop a vaccine based on the strain of the virus that recently ratcheted up alarm when it infected a dairy worker in Texas.
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