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Firms working on new flu vaccines.
Byline: Paul Jacobs
SAN JOSE, Calif. _ Public health officials believe it is only a matter of time before there's another deadly worldwide flu outbreak, a pandemic caused by a distinctly new form of the virus.
But current methods for producing influenza vaccines are surprisingly clumsy. The technology _ largely unchanged for 50 years _ makes it difficult to produce the huge quantities of vaccine that would be needed on short notice to beat back a pandemic.
That's what would be called for if the bird flu that has been sweeping through chicken flocks in Asia suddenly starts turning up in large numbers of people. It hasn't yet.
But several companies, including Chiron in Emeryville, Calif., and MedImmune Vaccines in Mountain View, Calif., are already at work on new ways of producing flu vaccine that are quicker and more flexible. And they don't rely on the current time-consuming technology, which makes the vaccine in fertilized chicken eggs, requiring tens of millions of eggs that must be ordered a year in advance.
Some producers have already begun ...
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Source: HighBeam Research, Firms working on new flu vaccines.