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A high-dose vaccine (Fluzone High-Dose) four times the strength of standard flu vaccine was approved by the FDA in 2009. [22] [23] [24] This vaccine is intended for people 65 and over, who typically have weakened immune response due to normal aging. The vaccine produces a greater immune response than standard vaccine.
CSL was founded in 1916 as Commonwealth Serum Laboratories, an Australian government body focused on vaccine manufacture. [4] Under the first director, William Penfold, [5] CSL commenced operation in the vacant Walter and Eliza Hall Institute building at the Royal Melbourne Hospital in 1918 before moving to its purpose-built Parkville premises in the following year.
The vaccine will be manufactured by CSL Seqirus UK Limited. [13] The vaccine is based on the A/H5N8/Astrakhan/3212/2020 clade 2.3.4.4b strain of influenza. [14] If needed, the H5 vaccine could be used while a pandemic-specific vaccine is developed and produced. [15] In June 2024, the European Commission signed a four-year contract with CSL ...
A spokeswoman for CSL, which has contracts for pandemic influenza vaccines with 30 governments, said the company has been in talks with several governments about procuring vaccines since 2022.
Federal health officials announced Friday they are providing $72 million to vaccine manufacturers to help ensure currently available bird flu vaccines are ready-to-use, if needed. There are ...
The following is a list of WHO recommended strains for the Northern Hemisphere influenza season. Starting in the 2012–2013 season, the recommendation shifted to include the composition of a quadrivalent influenza vaccine (QIV) that contains both influenza B lineages, alongside a trivalent influenza vaccine (TIV) containing one influenza B lineage.
CSL Seqirus, in Holly Springs, N.C., where emergency bird flu pandemic vaccines are being readied by federal officials. Thirteen farmworkers have been infected with the virus this year, some ...
Is there a benefit to keeping this page instead of replacing it with a redirect to the Influenza vaccine page? Whywhenwhohow 00:21, 28 November 2019 (UTC) []. Unfortunately, the existence of Wikipedia entries on specific brands of products that are generally about encouraging conformity and supporting the existence of authoritarian secretive organisations already seems to be well-accepted, e.g ...