EU experts back pandemic flu shot from Novartis
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European regulators have endorsed a second experimental bird flu vaccine for use in humans, from Swiss drugmaker Novartis AG.
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LONDON - Rapidly vaccinating the masses is the key to fighting pandemics, say scientists who concluded the flu pandemic of 1918 was less contagious than thought.
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European regulators have given a green  light to the first two avian influenza vaccines for use in  birds, the European Medicines Agency said on Friday.
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The European Union is the best prepared area in the world to meet an influenza pandemic but still needs two or three years before it can cope fully, the EU's disease control agency said on Thursday.
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Health experts and drugs companies on Friday urged rich countries to come up with public funding to spur development of a human vaccine against a pandemic strain of the bird flu virus that could kill millions of people around the world within months.
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Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline PLC has agreed to donate 50 million doses of H5N1 vaccine to the World Health Organization in an attempt to create a pandemic vaccine stockpile for poor countries, company officials announced Wednesday.
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Roche Holding AG said Monday it will produce enough doses of the drug Tamiflu to cover this year's influenza season.
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GENEVA - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday urged governments to provide funds to drug makers developing vaccines against a feared influenza pandemic, which could kill millions of people.
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While patients are panicking over a shortage of flu vaccine in the United States, vaccination programs in Europe are progressing smoothly with a good supply of medicine, health authorities say.
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French drugmaker Sanofi-Aventis has  won U.S. approval to sell a new vaccine designed to give longer  protection against meningitis, a potentially fatal bacterial  infection.
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GlaxoSmithKline PLC and Novartis AG, two of the world's biggest vaccine makers, may have bet on the wrong technology in the race to develop a better flu shot.
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An international team of scientists isolates antibodies that could protect against bird flu in humans.
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A panel of experts advising the US Food and Drug Administration recommended Wednesday that the agency approve Aventis Pasteur&#39;s long-acting Menactra vaccine against bacterial meningitis.
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The European Union could face a 21st  century flu crisis killing millions of people if human and  animal viruses were to converge, the bloc's health commissioner  warned on Friday.
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GAITHERSBURG, Maryland  - Data for Sanofi-Aventis' experimental bird flu vaccine support its safety and effectiveness for use in the event of a widespread outbreak, a U.S. advisory panel said on Tuesday.
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THE HAGUE -- The world is unprepared for an inevitable flu pandemic that could kill tens of millions of people, but profit-driven pharmaceutical companies are putting too little research into the development of vaccines, the World Health Organization said yesterday.
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Despite the discovery of tainted vaccine at the British factory that makes half of America&#39;s flu shot supply, US health authorities said Friday they were confident there would be enough available for the coming influenza season.