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Swine flu vaccine won't be ready for next wave

By Debora Mackenzie

13 May 2009

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Hungarian pharmaceutical laboratory Omninvest announce that they have made all the preparatory steps needed to start to develop a Swine Flu vaccine

Hungarian pharmaceutical laboratory Omninvest announce that they have made all the preparatory steps needed to start to develop a Swine Flu vaccine

(Image: Sipa Press / Rex)

Swine flu vaccine won't be ready for next wave

(Image: Steve Nagy / Design Pics Inc / Rex)

Editorial: Beware the return of swine flu

A VACCINE against the Mexican swine flu sweeping the world is likely to arrive too late for most people, vaccine officials told New Scientist between a flurry of high-level industry meetings this week.

The World Health Organization is now considering whether to advise the world’s vaccine makers to switch from ordinary flu vaccine to the Mexican H1N1.…

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