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Adequate Supply of Swine Flu Vaccine Uncertain
Date:5/18/2009

ntiviral drugs and vaccines and the CDC, will be the quickest and most effective way to deliver product wherever it is needed," the group added.

Christine M. Layton, a public health scientist with RTI International, a Research Triangle Park, N.C.-based research institute, said the response to the 1976 swine flu outbreak illustrates that the United States is capable of immunizing a large number of people in a short period of time.

And while she believes the United States is better prepared today than it was 33 years ago, a new vaccination program doesn't turn on a dime.

"If everybody starts lining up tomorrow, they're going to be waiting a really long time," Layton said.

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Get more facts about swine flu from the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.



SOURCES: May 14, 2009, press briefing with Keiji Fukuda, M.D., M.P.H., interim assistant director-general, health security and environment, World Health Organization, Geneva, Switzerland; Holger Rovini, M.D., lead analyst, infectious diseases, Datamonitor, London; Ravi S. Harapanhalli, Ph.D., principal consultant, late-stage services lead, PAREXEL Consulting, Lowell, Mass; Christine M. Layton, Ph.D., M.P.H., public health scientist, RTI International, Research Triangle Park, N.C.; Healthcare Distribution Management Association, Arlington, Va.; May 11, 2009, Datamonitor news release; May 7, 2009, Sanofi Pasteur news release


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