Swine Flu Updates And News

As if the world wasn’t worried already, reports from the scientific and medical community are saying that a specific vaccine for the near pandemic swine flu could take at least six months to be ready to distribute to the general world population.

The main reason is that vaccines like this have to be developed from the actual specific flu strain (in this case, swine flu), and then the following steps must take place:

1. It has to be tested thoroughly for safety

2. The vaccine then has to be sent to manufacturers for mass production

3. Then the vaccine has to be distributed

Some say that by the time all of this takes place, the first wave of swine flu pandemic might already be over with. At this point, pandemic status for swine flu is still unknown, but with more cases popping up literally by the hour, it won’t be a huge surprise to see it go that way.

With summer around the corner, it has also been said that this short burst of swine flu outbreaks may be short lived, and then rear it’s ugly head on an even bigger scale in the fall and winter, when influenza seems to thrive. No one can be sure yet if that’s the case – only time will tell.

In the mean time, Tamiflu and Relenza will probably be the drugs of choice to treat those already infected with swine flu. They are both said to be able to treat swine flu very effectively, and many governments around the world have large stockpiles of it after the bird flu outbreak of 2007.