Vaccine Market

Roughly three out of every 10 parents in the UK either failed to sign a consent form for the new cervical cancer vaccine or sent in a refusal letter in its place. Report [1] 

A gas shortage in Uganda has eliminated fuel supplies for the clinics supplying vaccines to the population. And without gas, physicians can't run the refrigerators needed to store vaccines. Report [2]

Officials in the UK market have marshaled a million doses of bluetongue vaccine to guard against a spread of the disease in warmer weather. Story [3]

Vaccine Research

University of Texas pharmaceutics professor Dr. Maria Croyle has received $2.6 million in grants to develop a new vaccine to fight the Ebola virus. Report [4]

Sanofi Pasteur says the U.S. government has accepted H5N1 bulk vaccine antigen to produce approximately 38.5 million doses of vaccine to protect against a new strain of avian influenza. Sanofi will receive a payment of $192.5 million booked in the second quarter. Release [5]

The economic deterioration likely to result from global warming will make also spur the lethal effect of HIV, warns a prominent Australian expert on the disease. Report [6]