There are now 30,000 cases worldwide and 145 deaths caused by swine flu. The growing swine flu epidemic is gradually becoming serious. The disease is spreading freely across the world and has now achieved pandemic status, the first for influenza for 41 years.
As the possibility of a real swine flu vaccines dawns, we need to be aware of what it really is. And we need to know if there is any serious danger from the vaccine itself.
Now more than ever we need a vaccine for swine flu. But the development of a vaccine is a long arduous process that involves a number of complex intricate steps. But what are the steps needed to make a vaccine for swine flu? The US, Australian and British developmental swine flu vaccines all use different bits of several flu viruses. These are then used to construct a vaccine which specifically stimulates the immune system against swine flu.
The reasons why several pieces of various viruses are used is because only such a mixture can be grown in sufficient quantities in hens eggs to enable industrial production.
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What is the possibility that the vaccine will still work on a mutated version of the swine flu virus?
ReplyDeleteThe virus might change its form in the future but wouldn't that change mean the proteins on its surface might also change too?
If that's the case that would mean that a vaccine produced now could prove to be useless in the future.
Interesting angle on the whole swine flu thing. Are you saying that the vaccine might not work? And there is a possibility that it might become virulent?
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