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H1N1 vaccine output estimated at 3 billion doses-WHO

Other News Materials 24 September 2009 17:17 (UTC +04:00)
Drug makers worldwide can produce an estimated 3 billion doses of the H1N1 vaccine per year and a single dose should be enough to give immunity, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday.
H1N1 vaccine output estimated at 3 billion doses-WHO

Drug makers worldwide can produce an estimated 3 billion doses of the H1N1 vaccine per year and a single dose should be enough to give immunity, the World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Thursday, Reuters reported.

But the WHO said in a statement supplies would be inadequate for the world's 6.8 billion population because global manufacturing capacity for influenza vaccines is "limited, inadequate and not readily augmented".

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