H1N1 Flu Vaccine May Be Coming Nearer To Us Soon
Nope, this is not any gimmick in our title to increase readership by raising false hopes to everybody; this is a news article extracted directly from CNN for your information, and of course, to raise your spirit in these recent gloomy economic and health weather.
According to CNN, researchers in Australia has tested the H1N1 vaccine on 240 people with ages in the range of 18 to 64, and by the end of 21 days, majority of these testees passed with flying colours. According to Dr. Raymond Strikas of the National Vaccine Program, testees who are able to exhibit an immune response of 1 to 40 titers for the vaccination test will at least passed another stringent criteria for the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to approve for the flu vaccine. Dr. Raymond Strikas was not involved with the study and his comment was published in the New England Journal of Medicine yesterday.
These testees are separated into 2 groups, one group was administered with 15 micrograms of the vaccine and the other with 30 micrograms. Those with 15 microgram has mild to moderate vaccine-associated reactions, similar to what they see when the seasonal flu vaccine is given.
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At the mean time, the National Institutes of Health scientists have been conducting their clinical trials on the H1N1 vaccine in several sites across the United States of America. “The NIH-sponsored clinical trial corroborates and confirms the exciting data by the Australians published in the New England Journal of Medicine” said Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the NIH. “In fact the NIH studies … show that a single dose of vaccine induces a robust immune response in healthy adults.” More details on the NIH studies will be released and we’ll keep you posted then.
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This article was actually published two months ago in our old blog and was recently moved over to this new site here. So, sorry if the information is abit stale now.
Anyway, good news for Singapore.
Our Ministry of Health will distribute the A/H1N1 vaccine when the first doses arrive in two weeks, estimated to be somewhere before mid of November 2009.
The vaccines will be distributed to polyclinics, private hospitals and clinics once the first batches arrive. Currently, the Ministry has already started going to clinics and hospitals to check on how many doses they need and to allocate the vaccine accordingly. Doctors from these health institution has been tasked to compile the lists in order to get a more factual figure for each hospital and clinic.
By Christmas time, Singapore should be able to receive its one million doses.
Currently stipulated the cost for the vaccine for each patient will be about S$29, which is in fact cheaper than the Tamiflu shots available here in Singapore.
As of this writing, H1N1 influenza has already caused 18 deaths in Singapore alone.
We are very glad that the vaccine is finally to be released to the mass and here at ShopBug.com, we wish everybody good health.
Even though I’m the author of this article, and even though I’m really very happy and glad that the vaccine is finally to be released-to-market, somehow a very funny feeling just creeps inside me, especially when I’ve just watched the Will Smith marathon in HBO.
Will this be something similar to I AM LEGEND ??
Hehe, definitely hope not, but just that it took centuries and yet there’s no vaccine for common flu, will this be the answer?
Give me your comments please
Dear friend
where can I get swine flue vaccines to buy for my patients
pls send me online store for
Thanks
Regards
Dr Ravindra