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SUBMITTER: Pandey A
PROVIDER: S-EPMC2888842 | biostudies-other | 2010 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Pandey Aseem A Singh Neetu N Sambhara Suryaprakash S Mittal Suresh K SK
Human vaccines 20100224 2
The emergence of a highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza virus in Hong Kong in 1997 and the subsequent appearance of other H5N1 strains and their spread to several countries in southeast Asia, Africa, the Middle East and Europe has evoked fear of a global influenza pandemic. Vaccines offer the best hope to combat the threat of an influenza pandemic. However, the global demand for a pandemic vaccine cannot be fulfilled by the current egg-based vaccine manufacturing strategies, thus creating a need to ...[more]