Agence France-Presse First Posted 04:17:00 05/23/2009 Filed Under: Swine Flu , Health , Diseases , Epidemic and Plague , Pharmaceuticals GENEVA -- The World Health Organization said Friday it was hopeful that the pharmaceutical industry would be ready to produce an anti-swine flu vaccine by the end of June or early July. "We're hopeful that by the end of June by the beginning July this will be the time that commercial companies will be in a position of being able to make a vaccine," said interim Assistant Director General Keiji Fukuda. However, Fukuda said experts were still mulling whether to give the go ahead for production as this may reduce or halt the manufacture of vaccines for seasonal flu. "We will hold off on making this decision for a little while," he added. Production of up to 4.9 billion doses a year of a vaccine against the new influenza A(H1N1) virus would be possible, according to a forecast presented to vac...
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