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Families Head Back to Japan on Pandemic Concerns Recombinomics Commentary 03:30
February 10, 2009
The above comments indicate Panasonic is taking the looming pandemic seriously. Most countries have stockpiled vaccines that will have little use after a pandemic begins, which is also true of Tamiflu. In contrast, Japan has plans to use its 20 million doses of vaccine for the implementation of a pre-pandemic vaccination campaign that will involve first responders and may significantly expand into the general population.
Many countries have stockpiled clade 1 vaccines, which are nearing expiration and will have little utility after a pandemic begins. Several studies have demonstrated the utility of use of these early vaccines as primers for booster shots using a vaccine target more closely related to current H54N1 clades in circulation such as clade 2 or clade 7.
Similarly, the fixing of H274Y in seasonal flu will likely lead to rapid resistance in H5N1 when transmission efficiencies improve or acquisition is driven by Tamiflu blankets applied to current smaller outbreaks in China, Indonesia, and Egypt.
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