Swine Flu Vaccine Could Take 6 Months
• LiveScienceA vaccine for the new swine flu in humans could take at least six months to manufacture and distribute widely. The reason: Vaccines must be developed from the specific flu strain, tested for safety, sent to manufacturers for mass production, and then
Nobody liked my memo. But they had plenty of objections to my proposed peptide synthesizers to produce a peptide vaccine on demand as an alternative, combined with emergency abandonment on most regulations. Even then, I estimated the best that could be done was six weeks, which is four weeks too long. A DNA vaccine could be faster, but to hit a two week target would require little in the way of QC, safety and efficacy testing until after the fact.