Influenza

Safer vaccine manufacturing possible in cold conditions

Published in Vaccine Weekly, April 30th, 2003

Using cold temperatures could help make quicker, cheaper, and safer influenza vaccines, according to Dr. Alison Whiteley at the Society for General Microbiology's Spring Meeting in Edinburgh.

Influenza epidemics sweep the world every year killing the very young and the very old, but every 30 years or so a new virulent strain appears that kills people from every age group. These super-dangerous strains develop from viruses that normally infect birds, and the vaccines need to be made very quickly under hazardous conditions.

Now researchers from Reading University are using a new technique to make vaccines from de-activated viruses in a safer way, by...

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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2003-04-30)

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