bigworld...........this is an excellent idea on "spiffy" (Ellen) part, if you would kindly drop the email. It can't hurt anything in my mind and you never know who is talking to who. Anything is possible this year (.....i.e. private corps going public?)
Between the present avian flu, lurking for a possible human to human jump and much, much more, there is no end to vaccine applications. The present, ideas of greater purity, efficency, less time to produce and reasonable expenses, changes many reasons why the vaccine market (especially influznea's) has been ignored over the past years. Now it could all change and the speed of production - reliability - safety - and so on makes for a new research field needed if not immediately, in the never ending generations of mutating pathology of micro-organisms.
Medicine (the medical gover't) needs to convince the "powers to be" of the impt/need to spend a few dollars now to prevent what could be difficult to contempate later.
Thanks so much for you constant insights and education to us, especially in the business aspects of microbiology.
You certainly did call the present events which seem to materializing at present. Will be interesting what developes each pasting day.
Rick
AI
