Drugmakers around the world are rushing to produce the swine flu vaccine by this fall.
Mothers who have just given birth should receive the swine flu vaccine, the Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has warned.
However, he thinks any sales boost from the planned swine flu vaccine will last only as long as the threat.
The government has struck a deal with the British drug giant GlaxoSmithKline to cut its massive order for swine flu vaccine.
Australian company CSL announced this week it planned to start the first human trials of a swine flu vaccine in Australia.
Glaxo will donate supplies of both the swine flu vaccine and Relenza to the WHO for use in developing countries, he said.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) approved the new swine flu vaccine for use in the United States on September 15, 2009.
The island's health department is continuing negotiations with UK authorities about obtaining stocks of a swine flu vaccine once it has been developed.
In an interview with CNN's Richard Quest, Witty said the new swine flu vaccine will likely be a boost to sales into 2010.
While three Indian firms have already begun working to develop the swine flu vaccine, the minister has stated that the country will import the vaccine until the local version becomes available.
Vaccines were also dogged by safety issues, including the swine flu vaccine fiasco of 1976, and by the dubious theory of a link between autism and the mercury once used in a vaccine preservative.
Many of the region's pharmaceutical names were knocked back recently when swine flu vaccine orders were canceled by several European nations, so the latest news from the U.S. is "a short-term positive, " said Pope.
So far just 40% of expectant mums in Northern Ireland have received the swine flu vaccine and the BBC understands there are currently several cases of pregnant women being treated in local intensive care units.
Meanwhile, Britain's health secretary announced Friday that his country's Health Protection Agency had sequenced the full genetic code of the H1N1 virus, the first step in producing a European prototype of a swine flu vaccine.
The Department of Health and Human Services has ordered 75 million doses of swine flu vaccine for delivery by year's end, and the CDC had predicted that 40 million doses would be available by the end of October.
Even if two doses of the swine flu vaccine are required to confer protection -- something that will be determined in clinical trials -- suppliers would probably be able to ramp up production quickly enough to meet demand, Fiore said.
There was no swine-flu vaccine, so government turned to the drug industry for help.
The CDC had hoped that about 40 million doses of H1N1, or swine flu, vaccine would be available by the end of October.
Chan said she would recommend that vaccine manufacturers proceed with mass production of an inoculation against the new swine flu strain as soon as they finish production of seasonal vaccine, which she estimated would be complete in about two weeks.
CNN: Swine flu 'not stoppable,' World Health Organization says
Mr Fukuda said officials and drug manufacturers were investigating how to speed up the process of developing a vaccine against the H1N1 swine flu strain.
Researchers in the United States have already taking steps to crack the genetic code of the virus behind the swine flu outbreak in order to produce a vaccine, U.S. officials said Wednesday.
The company running the experiment, VaxInnate, a closely held biotech firm, is working on technology that could derive in only six weeks a new vaccine for the H1N1 swine flu, the virus causing the global scare.
While researchers haven't developed a vaccine to fight the new swine flu, it can be treated with antiviral drugs Tamiflu and Relenza, the same drugs used on the regular flu.
Meanwhile, swine flu vaccines are being released to GPs in south Wales whose stocks are running low of the seasonal flu vaccine.
The research is a first step toward U.S. health officials' goal of developing a safe and effective vaccine against H1N1, also known as swine flu, which has been declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organization.
CNN: School: No shortage of volunteers for swine flu vaccine trials
Melbourne-based company CSL Ltd. plans to test a vaccine for the H1N1 virus, also known as swine flu, on 240 volunteers, a company representative said.
CNN: Australia to begin first human test of swine flu vaccine
In a 2011 paper, researchers reported being able to accurately track disease levels for the swine flu outbreak two years earlier by searching for keywords such as flu, vaccine, illness, Tamiflu and pneumonia.
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