H7N9 vaccine expected ready within 7 months: ministries

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http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-04/11/c_124564965.htm

BEIJING, April 10 (Xinhua) -- As part of China's emergency response to the H7N9 bird flu on technological front, China formally launched a research project on Wednesday for developing a vaccine for H7N9.
Jointly launched by the Ministry of Science and Technology and the National Health and Family Planning Commission here, the move is expected to make a vaccine ready within seven months, an official statement said.

China officially confirmed the occurrence of human infection with the H7N9 virus late last month.

So far, the country has reported a total of 33 H7N9 cases, including nine which ended in fatalities.

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Re: H7N9 vaccine expected ready within 7 months: ministries

Will it still be effective in 7 months? I thought that the virus at the early stages of a pandemic or novel emergence tended to be more unstable or prone to mutation than an established virus. So a vaccine based off of early isolates may not be effective.