Girls wearing masks to prevent the H1N1 influenza virus are seen at the venue of the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships in Ise, Mie prefecture, central Japan September 11, 2009. Japan's health ministry is set to buy enough H1N1 flu vaccine for nearly 50 million people from British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline and Swiss maker Novartis, a Japanese newspaper reported on Friday. Reuters Pictures 2 months ago

Girls wearing masks to prevent the H1N1 influenza virus are seen at the venue of the Rhythmic Gymnastics World Championships in Ise, Mie prefecture, central Japan September 11, 2009. Japan's health ministry is set to buy enough H1N1 flu vaccine for nearly 50 million people from British drug maker GlaxoSmithKline and Swiss maker Novartis, a Japanese newspaper reported on Friday.

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  2. CSL Biotherapies, Inc. President Paul Perreault, left, accompanied by Novartis Vaccines USA President Vas Narasimham, testifies on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009, before a joint House Health and Oversight and Investigation subcommittee's hearing on H1N1 Preparedness: An update on vaccine production and distribution.
  3. From left, CSL Biotherapies, Inc. President Paul Perreault; Novartis Vaccines USA President Dr. Vas Narasimham; Operations MedImmune Executive Vice President for Operations Dr. Ben Machielse; Phillip Hosbach, vice president, Immunization Policy and Government Relations Sanofi Pasteur; Texas Department of State Health Services Commissioner David Lakey; and Trust for America's Health Executive Director Dr. Jeffrey Levi; are sworn-in on Capitol Hill in Washington, Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009, prior to testifying before the joint House Health and Oversight and Investigation subcommittees hearing on H1N1 Preparedness: An update on vaccine production and distribution.
  4. Nathan Compton, 5, grimaces as he gets an H1N1 vaccination from nurse Leslie Trotter, left, as his mother Madeline Rubenstein, right, comforts him at a H1N1-swine flu clinic in Sacramento, Calif., Monday, Nov. 16, 2009. Pharmaceutical maker Novartis AG said Tuesday a U.S. clinical study suggests that half a dose of its swine flu vaccine may be sufficient to protect people from the virus and could allow many more to be immunized with current supplies.
  5. Joe Cohen, co-inventor of malarial vaccine and GlaxoSmithKline researcher addresses a press conference on November 3, 2009 on the sidelines of the ongoing Multilateral Interventions on Malaria, MIM-PAMC conference in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi. The most clinically advanced Malaria vaccine known as RTS,S so far should be ready for use in three to five years after phase three trials began in May and is targeted to be atleast 50 percent effective against the severe form of Malaria according to Cohen.
  6. A nurse prepares a shot of the A(H1N1) vaccine (Pandemrix from Glaxo Smith Kline -GSK- laboratory) to a hospital staff member in Istanbul, on November 2, 2009. Turkey began vaccinating medical workers Monday as the death toll from the A(H1N1) virus in the country reached six, the health ministry said. The latest victims of the disease were a 22-month-old baby and a 14-year-old boy who died overnight in the central city of Konya, a ministry statement said. Nine other people infected with swine flu were in serious condition in intensive care at the country's medical facilities, it added.
  7. A nurse prepares a shot of the A(H1N1) vaccine (Pandemrix from Glaxo Smith Kline -GSK- laboratory) to a hospital staff member in Istanbul, on November 2, 2009. Turkey began vaccinating medical workers Monday as the death toll from the A(H1N1) virus in the country reached six, the health ministry said. The latest victims of the disease were a 22-month-old baby and a 14-year-old boy who died overnight in the central city of Konya, a ministry statement said. Nine other people infected with swine flu were in serious condition in intensive care at the country's medical facilities, it added.
  8. A nurse prepares a shot of the A(H1N1) vaccine (Pandemrix from Glaxo Smith Kline -GSK- laboratory) to a hospital staff member in Istanbul, on November 2, 2009. Turkey began vaccinating medical workers Monday as the death toll from the A(H1N1) virus in the country reached six, the health ministry said. The latest victims of the disease were a 22-month-old baby and a 14-year-old boy who died overnight in the central city of Konya, a ministry statement said. Nine other people infected with swine flu were in serious condition in intensive care at the country's medical facilities, it added.
  9. Picture of two flasks allowing to blend several doses, an adjuvant and a antigen, of Pandemrix A(H1N1) vaccine ( from Glaxo Smith Kline -GSK- laboratory), taken at Pellegrin hospital on October 28, 2009 in Bordeaux, southwestern France. As France ordered 94 million doses of vaccine in response to the A(H1N1) pandemic, France begun on October 20, 2009 vaccinating key medical workers against swine flu and will continue the preventing campaign for the general population early next month.
  10. Picture of two flasks allowing to blend several doses, an adjuvant and a antigen, of Pandemrix A(H1N1) vaccine ( from Glaxo Smith Kline -GSK- laboratory), taken at Pellegrin hospital on October 28, 2009 in Bordeaux, southwestern France. As France ordered 94 million doses of vaccine in response to the A(H1N1) pandemic, France begun on October 20, 2009 vaccinating key medical workers against swine flu and will continue the preventing campaign for the general population early next month.
  11. Picture of two flasks allowing to blend several doses, an adjuvant and a antigen, of Pandemrix A(H1N1) vaccine ( from Glaxo Smith Kline -GSK- laboratory), taken at Pellegrin hospital on October 28, 2009 in Bordeaux, southwestern France. As France ordered 94 million doses of vaccine in response to the A(H1N1) pandemic, France begun on October 20, 2009 vaccinating key medical workers against swine flu and will continue the preventing campaign for the general population early next month.
  12. Picture of two flasks allowing to blend several doses, an adjuvant and a antigen, of Pandemrix A(H1N1) vaccine ( from Glaxo Smith Kline -GSK- laboratory), taken at Pellegrin hospital on October 28, 2009 in Bordeaux, southwestern France. As France ordered 94 million doses of vaccine in response to the A(H1N1) pandemic, France begun on October 20, 2009 vaccinating key medical workers against swine flu and will continue the preventing campaign for the general population early next month.
  13. Picture of two flasks allowing to blend several doses, an adjuvant and a antigen, of Pandemrix A(H1N1) vaccine ( from Glaxo Smith Kline -GSK- laboratory), taken at Pellegrin hospital on October 28, 2009 in Bordeaux, southwestern France. As France ordered 94 million doses of vaccine in response to the A(H1N1) pandemic, France begun on October 20, 2009 vaccinating key medical workers against swine flu and will continue the preventing campaign for the general population early next month.

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