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Pandemic fears hatch new methods in flu vaccine industry

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With current vaccine manufacturing methods, it would take six months to create a clinically tested vaccine if a pandemic started today, says Klaus Stöhr, head of the World Health Organization's (WHO) Global Influenza Program. “By that time, the virus could have circled the globe.”

But because new technologies take so long to develop, license and test in the clinic, manufacturers and health agencies need to lay the groundwork now, before a pandemic hits, experts say.

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