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Internet post hastens vaccine development

EVEN as US officials awaited the arrival of a sample of the new bird flu virus from China - typically the first step in making a flu vaccine - government-backed researchers have already begun testing a "seed" strain of the virus made from a genetic code that has been posted on the Internet.

In a new, faster approach, scientists take the genetic code and use it as a recipe to build the virus from scratch.

It was an idea born in the aftermath of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic, in which production delays and poor-quality seed strain slowed delivery of a vaccine.

The new method has shaved two weeks off the vaccine-making process - weeks that could make a vital difference in many cases.


 

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