The swine flu vaccine is "technically easy to manufacture and, if necessary, could be available within a period of three or four months", said on Wednesday, María del Carmen Saez, chief of Preventive Medicine, Hospital Clínico Universitario the Spanish city of Salamanca.
Million doses
Saenz, who has treated these days if a suspect at his workplace, said in an interview with Efe, during the bird flu a number of countries and pharmaceutical industries to develop procedures that will make the vaccine in a short time.
Dozens dead in Mexico
He added that production can continue for three or four months, because it is necessary to create and package the vaccine for "lots of people."
The facility to produce the dosage is that the virus is isolated and would require only "grown in large quantities and from the substrate factory."
Health emergency in United States
Saenz appealed for calm from the population because "humanity has never been so prepared as today."
He recalled that in Spain there are antiviral drugs that were purchased when did the bird flu and masks are available and sufficient information, so people have to be quiet, as "simply a case that appears to have everything available."
Nevertheless, he admitted that unlike the human influenza virus, which appears at the colder months, the swine flu was detected in a hot season, as the current temperature in Mexico City is between 25 and 30 degrees , which "does not fit."
Made "strange"
This is "very rare", as the common flu virus is very sensitive to heat and ultraviolet rays, but to whether the swine flu is also expected to be seen whether disappears with rising temperatures.
In the event that the swine flu virus does not hold heat, the vaccine should be ready to be administered in October, as with the common flu.
The new mutation of the virus presents many unknowns, "because its development is still unknown.
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The world on alert for swine influenza
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In principle, it seems that his is "limited," because although there are people who have been with the Spaniards who had contracted in Mexico, so far nobody has been infected in our country, "he said.
Saez said that the new virus has emerged from an exchange of genetic material from human influenza virus, the pig and the bird flu.
"He has the genome of each of these three, but it is a new virus which, in principle, we could all humanity," he warned.
Million doses
Saenz, who has treated these days if a suspect at his workplace, said in an interview with Efe, during the bird flu a number of countries and pharmaceutical industries to develop procedures that will make the vaccine in a short time.
Dozens dead in Mexico
He added that production can continue for three or four months, because it is necessary to create and package the vaccine for "lots of people."
The facility to produce the dosage is that the virus is isolated and would require only "grown in large quantities and from the substrate factory."
Health emergency in United States
Saenz appealed for calm from the population because "humanity has never been so prepared as today."
He recalled that in Spain there are antiviral drugs that were purchased when did the bird flu and masks are available and sufficient information, so people have to be quiet, as "simply a case that appears to have everything available."
Nevertheless, he admitted that unlike the human influenza virus, which appears at the colder months, the swine flu was detected in a hot season, as the current temperature in Mexico City is between 25 and 30 degrees , which "does not fit."
Made "strange"
This is "very rare", as the common flu virus is very sensitive to heat and ultraviolet rays, but to whether the swine flu is also expected to be seen whether disappears with rising temperatures.
In the event that the swine flu virus does not hold heat, the vaccine should be ready to be administered in October, as with the common flu.
The new mutation of the virus presents many unknowns, "because its development is still unknown.
Photos
The world on alert for swine influenza
Gene
In principle, it seems that his is "limited," because although there are people who have been with the Spaniards who had contracted in Mexico, so far nobody has been infected in our country, "he said.
Saez said that the new virus has emerged from an exchange of genetic material from human influenza virus, the pig and the bird flu.
"He has the genome of each of these three, but it is a new virus which, in principle, we could all humanity," he warned.
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