Illinois-based Baxter working on vaccine to stop swine flu outbreak in Mexico
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Source: wqad
Illinois-based Baxter working on vaccine to stop swine flu outbreak in Mexico
By Associated Press
9:22 PM CDT, April 25, 2009
DEERFIELD, Ill. (AP) � Specialty drug maker Baxter International Inc. will work with the World Health Organization to develop a vaccine that could stem an outbreak of a deadly swine flu strain in Mexico.
Baxter spokesman Christopher Bona said Saturday that the Deerfield, Ill.-based company has asked the WHO for a sample of the flu strain.
He says Baxter has patented technology that allows the company to develop vaccines in half the time it usually takes � about 13 weeks instead of 26.
There have been 20 confirmed deaths in Mexico of the swine flu, with nonfatal cases also confirmed in Kansas and California.
Humans don't have a natural immunity to swine flu strain that emerged in Mexico in March. Officials have warned the outbreak could become a global epidemic.
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