Getting your player ready...
LONDON — With swine flu now an official pandemic, the race is on among drugmakers to produce a vaccine. GlaxoSmithKline said Thursday after the World Health Organization declared a global flu pandemic that it would be ready within weeks to begin large-scale vaccine production. Sanofi-Aventis also said it had started working on its own version.
On Friday, Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis announced it had created an experimental vaccine that has not been tested in people. Novartis’ vaccine was made via a cell-based technology that might prove faster than the traditional way of making vaccines, which relies on chicken eggs.
