From: "Steve Ewing" 

On Tue, 22 Feb 2005 09:17:53 +0000, Adam Flinton
 wrote:

> Vaccine efforts are still focused on garden-variety influenza, which
> kills 36,000 Americans every year, and it would be impossible, in case
> of an avian-flu epidemic, to switch gears quickly to make a special
> avian-flu vaccine, Gerberding said. "

I don't see how they could make a vaccine at all until the disease actually
appears, unless they can produce (or gear up to produce) a "close
enough" vaccine, or one that can be easily and rapidly tweaked to fit
the exact virus.

--
Steve 
http://www.qmss.com/sewing

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