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The decision to ramp up to produce a massive quantity of pandemic vaccine for the H1N1 virus is a huge one, and is akin to putting a very large bet on a horse you’ve never seen run before.
No one knows, right now, whether this H1N1 swine flu virus has the `legs’ to still be threatening humanity six months from now.
Adopting, at least temporarily, a `wait and see’ attitude, the WHO (World Health Organization) is not quite ready to issue guidance on the production of a pandemic vaccine.
WHO says not ready to give pandemic vaccine guidance
Reuters
Tuesday, May 26, 2009; 11:41 AMGENEVA (Reuters) - The World Health Organization wants to keep monitoring the spread of H1N1 flu before issuing guidance on the production of pandemic flu vaccines, a top WHO official said Tuesday.
"We don't want to make recommendations too early because we are on a daily basis monitoring how the situation is evolving," acting WHO assistant director-general Keiji Fukuda told a news briefing.
The U.N. agency is convening experts in the next weeks to help revamp its six-point pandemic alert scale so it reflects how severe the circulating virus is and not just the way it is spreading, he said.
