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Article: FDA backs four brands of H1N1 vaccine. Health Ministry calls it 'the opening shot' towards Israeli approval
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- September 17, 2009
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JUDY SIEGEL JUDY SIEGEL
Jerusalem Post
09-17-2009
FDA backs four brands of H1N1 vaccine. Health Ministry calls it 'the opening shot' towards Israeli approval
Byline: JUDY SIEGEL JUDY SIEGEL
Edition: Daily
Section: News
Although the Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved the marketing in the US of three new injectible vaccines and one nasal-spray vaccine against H1N1 (swine) flu, the Health Ministry in Jerusalem could not yet say when the first vaccines would arrive here.
The brands have been produced and tested by CSL, Novartis and Sanofi Pasteur (injectible) and MedImmune (nasal spray). The FDA said the vaccines "will be distributed in the US after the initial lots ...