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“US health officials today scaled back the number of swine flu vaccine doses that they expect to roll out this month, even as the numbers of H1N1-associated hospitalizations and deaths, particularly among children, continue to rise.

The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) now expects to have 28-30 million doses of swine flu vaccine by the end of October — down from the 45 million doses predicted in August and previous estimates of 120 million forecast earlier in the summer.

The problem, it appears, is insufficient quantities of antigen — the part of the virus included in the vaccine that prompts the body to generate antibodies and mount an immune response.”

If this is happening in the industrial countries, what shall developing, and poor countries do! (I have no answer, but I may wait for yours)

Source: Nature Blog; The Great Beyond

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