So do I actually, so I suppose if this is made the same way then it wouldn't be any more of a risk - unless there's an extra risk due to it being done fast, or due to some feature of this particular virus - possible?

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Personally, if it were grown & manufactured in a similar fashion to seasonal flu, then yes, I'd be happy to for all my family to have it. We have seasonal flu jabs each year and would have this one too.

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I did read the side-effects then may have been rather over-reported because of the way the information was released and so doctors actively looked for those side effects. Not sure if thats true or the opinion of the author but I could imagine how that would happen.

So would you be happy having one of the first batch or would you be a bit cautious?

The 1976 thing is what's made me think I wouldn't want to be one of the first, but maybe that's not an issue now if what you say is right - reassuring.

BadKitten: yep, lessons have been learned and a lot has changed since then. Plus of course current one is an H1N1 swine (rather than '76 H1N1 avian re-introduction), and therefore mostly new. Lot more known about vaccines now and different ways of presenting antigens to the immune system..

My OH doesn't have swine Flu after all, Doctor called and said it's just man flu!

Musukebba - '76?

Yes BadKitten: as mentioned the nice article you linked to; it takes about a year to get all the doses through from seed to the point where it can be given to people, but this swine vaccine will probably have a few more trial aspects than normal to make the licence ;)

Also relevant is the established production in factories of seasonal flu vaccine. A decision was taken earlier this year to complete this, rather than switch to solely swine flu (correct decision IMO).

Musukebba - March - lol! so not to hold our breath for it then.

Parmageddon. That does depend of course whether people will need one or two doses of it as to whether it will cover the population or not.

interesting article on vaccine

Well depends where you live. In high transmission areas like London and Birmingham, whilst people were still being swabbed, it was about a 50% positivity rate for people having clinical influenza-like illness.