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Flu vaccine update
The much-anticipated flu vaccine is on its way into the States, the New York Times reported.
Some injectable swine flu shots will become available earlier than expected, a pharmaceutical executive said, because his company has been able to finish making its vaccine nearly two weeks ahead of schedule. “The first truck left Pennsylvania today,” said Christopher A. Viehbacher, chief executive of Sanofi-Aventis, the pharmaceutical company based in Europe, which has a flu vaccine plant in Swiftwater, Pa. Until recently, nearly all the first vaccine batches were expected to be of the nasal spray form, a live virus that is not recommended for pregnant women, children under 2, adults over 50 and people with health problems.
