What is the likelihood that a swine flu vaccine will be developed anytime soon?

I was just wondering, since I've heard a lot of people talking about scientists working on a vaccine for swine flu. How long will it take for a vaccine to be developed, though? After all, the HIV virus has been recognized since the late 70s or early 80s, and we STILL don't have a vaccine for that!

For some there will be a vaccine for most not one available for sometime. Military,medical personnel etc.. all go first.

Me personally I never get a flu vaccine. Seems kinda useless at this point in my life. Virus have been with us for sometime and are not going away anytime soon this will not be the last flu virus.

GlycoMeds is on fraud list.. Nurse.
http://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/h1...

you can watch here for update info to all your virus questions including vaccine...

http://www.flutrackers.com/forum/forumdi...

It is all government controlled, don't take the vaccine, question what is in it first Report Abuse

They have been working very hard on developing a vaccine. Since it has been declared a pandemic, more effort and money will be used to develop a swine vaccine. The WHO will now recommend that pharmaceutical companies make swine flu vaccine. The agency typically recommends which flu strains drug companies should use in the vaccines. In a global outbreak, WHO also advises whether companies should make pandemic vaccine.

The decision to make pandemic vaccine is a gamble. Most flu vaccine makers cannot make both regular seasonal flu vaccine and pandemic vaccine at the same time. That means they must decide which one the world will need more.

Since vaccines are a very important part of a response to pandemic influenza the U.S. Government is aggressively taking early steps in the process to manufacture a novel H1N1 vaccine, working closely with manufacturers. CDC has isolated the new H1N1 virus, made a candidate vaccine virus that can be used to create vaccine, and has provided this virus to industry so they can begin scaling up for production of a vaccine, if necessary. Making vaccine is a long multi-step process requiring several months to complete.

There is already a product that kills the virus within 12 hours. It works for any type of flu virus because instead of attacking the protein envelope that can change with mutation, it attacks the ssRNA which doesn't change. This product was developed by a small Phoenix company called GlycoMeds. GlycoMeds has been looking for a company to manufacture the product for OTC sale.

The problem with vaccines is that they attack the protein envelope and new vaccines have to developed with every new strain.

according to the last report from CDC, the pharmeceutical giant Merck has already put a vaccine into production, first doses will be ready around the end of September, but vaccination for the populace likely won't be available until the end of the year.

The Swine flu is always developing and needs to be monitored on a daily basis. Here is a reference to the best article and update resource I have found.

Another problem is viruses mutate fairly quickly and can "outsmart" vaccines. It's why a new flu vaccine has to be created every year.

They got one developed last week. Now they need to make lots of it before the next flu season hits.