When will they make the vaccine for the H1N1 flu (Swine Flu)?

when will this question settle "Vaccine never finished"? never?

Good work @afoxtrotn00b, thanks for giving this question another go!

Not sure if this means a vaccine is first made, or the Nth and last update is made? How will we know it is ever the last update? The word "finished" needs clarification. Like what the meaning of is is ( a la Bill clinton).

i cashed in some of my guesses because conditions were changed.. Not sure why this needs to be done. If question is poor, why not just stop question and rewrite it properly. One always seems to lose money when these things are being done, and we are not informed...

Large-scale H1N1 vaccine production begins

French drug maker Sanofi-Aventis (SASY.PA) has begun large-scale production of a vaccine for the H1N1 swine flu at its facilities in the United States and France, the company said on Thursday.

http://www.reuters.com/article/rbssHealthcareNews/idUSN2529731620090625

http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2009-07-13-swine-flu-vaccine_N.htm
Not until December...wow

07/23 Leaderboard (and I'm sure it's only partial, but it's what I've found):

--Glaxo SmithKline is producing a vaccine in Germany and Canada, but has not started human trials.
--Sanofi-Aventis is producing a vaccine in France and the United States, and has not started human trials.
--CSL and Vaxine--both in Australia--have started human trials in that country, making Australia the first nation to start them. Both trials are expected to take "weeks or months" (and Vaxine's synthetic vaccine, "may not even be effective" according to the company).
--Sanofi-Aventis, Novartis, Baxter, GlaxoSmithKline, Solvay and AstraZeneca's MedImmune subsidiary have finished making seasonal flu vaccines for this year...but those don't count.

Admin, please clarify:

I get the "In this context, 'finished' means that a H1N1 vaccine is marketed and available for public use." But what public are we talking about? What if France approves it for use and distributes it in October, but the US FDA demands more testing be completed before release in the US and it doesn't become publicly available until December?

Novartis starts testing its swine flu vaccine

August 5, 2009 | Associated Press

Swiss drugmaker Novartis says it has begun injecting its swine flu vaccine into people for its first human tests. Novartis spokesman Eric Althoff says a person in Britain became the first person to get its swine flu vaccine about 10 days ago. The vaccine is being tested in a yearlong trial in about 6,000 people in Britain, Germany and the United States. Althoff said the vaccine will likely be on the market before the trial finishes.

European and U.S. regulators have a fast-track approval process for swine flu vaccines that will allow them to be sold before extensive safety data are available.

http://www.mercurynews.com/twitter/ci_12995906?source=rss

"...U.S. regulators have a fast-track approval process for swine flu vaccines that will allow them to be sold before extensive safety data are available. "

Gee, that's not scary. IOW, because there's so much money at stake for whoever completes a vaccine first--tens of billions of dollars--every Big Pharma company wants to be at the head of the line. And now with the 'fast-track' approval process and the US Government granting full immunity against civil and/or criminal liability in the event someone screws up and releases a vaccine that's worse than the disease it's intended to permit, the winner stands to win big. very, very, big.

Tell your stockbroker to buy GlaxoSmithKline today!!!

:-|

Are we setting ourselves up like the 1970s swine flu vaccine nightmare all over again or what!?!

a chinese company's vaccine was approved for use today...the first vaccine to go thru trials and be approved

china has begun vaccinations

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090921/wl_asia_afp/healthfluchina_20090921115346

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090922/hl_nm/us_flu_china_1