Bird Flu Vaccine

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The FDA has just awarded the French drug company Sanofi the approval to make the first H5N1 flu virus vaccine. But before you get too complacent this is not going to totally protect you from the bird Flu. If the H5N1 mutates to become virulent for human to human transmission it will not be ‘exactly’ the current form of the existing virus. This one will have some immunity and maybe bide you some time until the virulent form has a specific vaccine against it. It will also not be available to the public because the Federal Government will buy all of the vaccine for the U.S. Strategic National Stockpile. This of course means the military, federal employees, first line medical personnel, police and National Guard will get the vaccine and it will be unlikely that it will filter down to us