‘The EU’s health crisis authority will sign a contract with Seqirus next Tuesday to secure hundreds of thousands of doses of its H5N1 flu shot adapted to protect people against the latest deadly strain of bird flu — and first doses will head to Finland.
The contract is currently for 640,000 doses, with the possibility to buy up to 40 million doses over four years.
Seqirus’s adapted zoonotic influenza vaccine was given the backing of the European Medicines Agency (EMA) in April.‘
www.politico.eu/article/finland-to-receive-first-eu-procured-bird-flu-shots/
Here’s the company that’s making the vax
CSL Seqirus
www.csl.com/we-are-csl/our-businesses-and-products/csl-seqirus
First person infected with H5N2 bird flu has died in Mexico – WHO
The 59-year-old man developed fever, shortness of breath, diarrhea and nausea. He went to the hospital a week later and was admitted, the patient died the same day.
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h/t A Deplorable Neanderthal