By Maggie Fox, Health and Science Editor
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The very first doses of swine flu vaccine will start arriving in states and cities that ordered it on Tuesday, and might be sprayed up the first patients’ noses by the end of the week, U.S. health officials said on Thursday.
Dr. Anne Schuchat of the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the first U.S. H1N1 vaccine to be delivered will be 600,000 doses of a nasal spray made by MedImmune, a division of AstraZeneca.
“This is a bit earlier than we were planning to get started,” Schuchat said in a telephone briefing.
She said 25 states, counties or cities which had placed the first orders for H1N1 vaccine on Wednesday, would receive it on Tuesday and decide how to distribute it. Read More…
