The world does not
yet have an effective vaccine against the swine flu virus. The
government at this time has its eye on two prospects that could
possibly yield a vaccine. It is hoped that the Centers for Disease
Control and Prevention can have a final version ready to deliver to
pharmaceutical companies around the world soon, to help them begin
manufacturing vaccines for use in hospitals.
The government has allocated funds now for conducting safety tests on
the first vaccine that come out. The first doses available are expected
to be administered to healthcare professionals who in the line of their
work are routinely exposed to swine flu. Researchers for the CDC have
shared with the public, information about the genetic makeup of the
swine flu virus and they have expressed their concerns that the virus
could have been in circulation in pigs for years. New research is
expected to allow the creation of a vaccine that can fight the swine
flu virus today and help keep
the virus from mutating in the future.
To gain the knowledge that will help keeping in the swine flu virus
from mutating in the future, scientists need to know where the virus
came from in the past. The H1N1 virus , ever since it made the transfer
from swine to humans a |
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