About H1N1 vaccine, H1N1vaccine production, H1N1 vaccine manufacturers

The Finnish National Institute for Health (THL) proposed suspending vaccinations for H1N1 swine flu, due to suspected links to increased narcolepsy in children and adolescents, the body announced this week.

Six cases of narcolepsy, a chronic disorder causing excessive daytime sleepiness and extreme fatigue, have been reported after patients had been receiving the Pandemrix vaccine. Read more…

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By Rod Rose/For the Times Sentinel
CNHI

— Flu shots for the 2010-11 season will include a vaccine for pandemic 2009 H1N1 influenza, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration said.

Each year, flu vaccine is mixed based on a World Health Organization estimate of what flu viruses are most likely to emerge in the upcoming season. This year, health experts anticipate that an H3N2 virus, and a type B virus, are also the most likely to cause the greatest number of flu cases.

The closer the vaccine matches the viruses that emerge, the fewer persons are likely to become sick. Read more…

Flu Vaccine

STOCKHOLM — Sweden’s Medical Products Agency opened an inquiry Wednesday into vaccinations for swine flu made by British pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline, suspected of provoking narcolepsy.

“The MPA has received six reports from health care professionals regarding narcolepsy as suspected adverse drug reaction following Pandemrix flu vaccination,” it said in a statement. Read more…

Faced with an acute shortage of nasal syringes for delivering the intra-nasal H1N1 vaccine, Nasovac, the Serum Institute of India (SII) has questioned all its suppliers to increase production capacity with immediate effect.

The company went into a supply shortage situation last week with nasal syringes running out of stock. Consequently, suppliers were questioned to increase their production capacity at the earliest, Adar Poonawalla, co-owner and executive director SII said.Nasovac kit is sold for Rs158 each. Read more…

Wһаt іѕ іח tһе H1N1 vaccines?
Back іח June, wһеח manufacture οf tһе H1N1 vaccine wаѕ being discussed, tһеrе wаѕ ѕοmе concern tһаt іt mіɡһt contain adjuvants (substances tһаt increase immune response, аחԁ mау bе toxic tο ѕοmе people); οr tһе mercury-based preservativethimoserol, wһісһ һаѕ bееח removed frοm nearly аƖƖ routine vaccinations fοr children. Tһе vaccine manufacturers аƖƖ mаԁе tһе ԁесіѕіοח tο omit adjuvants. Tһеrе аrе three forms οf vaccine being manufactured—a nasal form, a single dose injection, аחԁ a multi-dose vial. Unfortunately tһеrе іѕ thimoserol іח tһе multi-dose vials οf tһе H1N1 vaccine. I аm recommending tһе nasal form οf tһе vaccine аחԁ tһе single-dose injection, bυt bесаυѕе οf tһе thimoserol, I аm חοt recommending vaccination frοm tһе multi-dose vials аt tһіѕ time. Read more…

The plant vaccine for the U.S. Army

The method of producing plant-based vaccines (without genetic modification of plants) has several advantages over the traditional use for growing crops vaccines are not hatched eggs.

It is cheaper to quickly and en masse to produce a product and reduce development time from six months to less than a month after the appearance of a new virus strain (the latter succeeded in the past year, the Canadian company Medicago Inc of Quebec, a vaccine candidate against swine influenza H1N1).

Since 2005, the Office of the Defense Advanced Research Projects United States (Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, DARPA) has a program of accelerated production of drugs (Accelerated Manufacture of Pharmaceuticals Program). Its goal – to provide the possibility of mass (3,000,000 doses) vaccine production within three months after the discovery of a new virus. Read more…