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Pinched this from the general thread - no mention of the generic name of this vacine

AUSTRALIA has developed a human vaccine for bird flu.

"The first ever Australian-made vaccine to protect humans from future bird flu pandemics has been granted approval for use in the event, of course, of an avian influenza outbreak," federal Health Minister Nicola Roxon said today.
The vaccine, developed by CSL, would protect humans against the H5N1 strain of influenza responsible for outbreaks of bird flu in Asia, the Middle East, Europe and Africa, Ms Roxon said.

"We know, of course, that if there is an outbreak that affects Australians, we need to make sure that we are properly prepared," she said.

"What we now have, courtesy of the work done by CSL ... is an Australian-made and able to be manufactured in Australia vaccine which will be able to respond to any new strain of a virus.

"We are very pleased that now that approvals have been granted that if we are in a situation which, of course, we hope we won't be, of a human-to-human virus taking hold in Australia, we will be able to quickly respond."
In that event, there would be no need to go through the approvals process, Ms Roxon said.
She said the safety of the vaccine had been assessed for adults aged 18-64 and those aged over 65.
The vaccine would be used only once an influenza pandemic had been officially declared by the World Health Organisation (WHO), Ms Roxon said.

"We hope we are not in a situation that this occurs but it does pay for us to be ready."

More than $160 million had been provided in this year's federal Budget to replenish Australia's vaccine stockpile.

"For Australia, it shows that when we invest in research, where we have very good medical researchers, we have manufacturers onshore, we can actually provide something which will give Australians more security and I think some sense of relief that we will be able to respond quickly if we are in the situation where a new strain of the virus is on our shores," Ms Roxon said.