Treyfish
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Monday August 24, 2009
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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials should help drug companies speed up the supply of swine flu vaccines to have at least some available to start vaccinating people by mid-September instead of mid-October as scheduled, White House science advisers said on Monday.
"We recommend that the Department of Health and Human Services accelerate the availability of a portion of the vaccine supply to mid-September by having manufacturers begin to 'fill and finish' a subset of the bulk vaccine product at 15 micrograms. Such a decision would need to be taken almost immediately," the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology said in a report.:tiphat:http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/8/25/worldupdates/2009-08-24T224021Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-419473-1&sec=Worldupdates
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</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE>WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. officials should help drug companies speed up the supply of swine flu vaccines to have at least some available to start vaccinating people by mid-September instead of mid-October as scheduled, White House science advisers said on Monday.
"We recommend that the Department of Health and Human Services accelerate the availability of a portion of the vaccine supply to mid-September by having manufacturers begin to 'fill and finish' a subset of the bulk vaccine product at 15 micrograms. Such a decision would need to be taken almost immediately," the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology said in a report.:tiphat:http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/8/25/worldupdates/2009-08-24T224021Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-419473-1&sec=Worldupdates