The first U.S. roll-out of vaccines against the new swine flu virus will be 3.4 million doses of MedImmune's nose spray, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Friday.
The current issue of Nature Medicine has an informative article by Charlotte Schubert, senior editor for News and Views on the power of adjuvants in vaccines including H1N1.
Dr. Tachi Yamada, president of the Gates Foundation's global health program believes that poorer nations without the funds or ability to produce a vaccine for H1N1 should get equal access to the limited supplies even if the richer countries paid for and developed the vaccine.
With the flu season fast approaching the President today provided an overview of what's being done. The Secretary of Health and Human Services is leading the way on public health preparedness and response efforts, the Principal Federal Official for domestic incidents, the Secretary of Homeland Security, is coordinating the supporting activities of Federal departments and agencies and facilitating response actions with State, local and territorial governments and tribal and private sector partners, while other Cabinet officials are leading complementary initiatives in their area of responsibility.
