From: Adam Flinton 

Steve Ewing wrote:

> 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.
>

Frankly close enough will do me. As it evolves...keep updating....

Adam

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