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Swine flu vaccine gets go-ahead

17 June 2009

VACCINE companies will now plough all their resources into making a vaccine against H1N1 swine flu, following a decision by the World Health Organization to declare the virus an on 11 June.

The WHO defines a pandemic as a virus that is spreading widely in the community in at least two regions. While community-acquired infections have been reported in Australia and North America for several weeks now, the WHO’s official declaration changes which vaccines get made.

It will activate a slew of government pre-orders for pandemic vaccine from Australia, Canada, New Zealand and 12 European countries, including…

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