So right now, the world can produce about 350 million doses of flu vaccine for the three strains, and we can up that to about 1.2 billion doses if we want to target a single variant like swine flu.

And, according to Venter, if his team s new technology had been available last year, it would have been possible to produce a vaccine to protect ourselves against H1N1 influenza in 24 hours, rather than several weeks.

Swine Flu for Grownups

Pigs spreading sausages.

Rodman, W. (1996).

The sow is nursing the piglets.

Pigs, Calves, and American Democracy

The nurse gave Tom a flu shot.

Tracking the 'Cedar Pollen Front'

Now, as you know, bacteria reproduce quickly it's like making yogurt and so we could produce enough swine origin flu for the entire world in a few factories, in a few weeks, with no eggs, for a fraction of the cost of current methods.

This room looks like a pigsty.

Jonathan Drori Every pollen grain has a story

And that would create a universal HIV vaccine.

So today, we get our flu vaccines from ...

The Annual Japanese Agony of Cedar Pollen

The first vaccine became available in 1981.

And a pig disease, a pig virus, and a human virus can both proliferate, and because of their kind of reproduction, they can combine and produce a new virus.

They tend to pigs, for example, are more like dogs.

OpusP remarks on Egypt's decision to cull swine saying

He said to them, Go! They came out, and went into the herd of pigs and behold, the whole herd of pigs rushed down the cliff into the sea, and died in the water.

And he said unto them, Go. And when they were come out, they went into the herd of swine and, behold, the whole herd of swine ran violently down a steep place into the sea, and perished in the waters.

So if this works in humans, what we're talking about is a universal flu vaccine, one that doesn't need to change every year and would remove the threat of death.

Those who saw it declared to them how it happened to him who was possessed by demons, and about the pigs.

And they that saw it told them how it befell to him that was possessed with the devil, and also concerning the swine.

More than 14 centuries after Islam prohibited the consumption of pork, pigs are once again making headlines across the Arab world this time in the form of tweets.

Now on the mountainside there was a great herd of pigs feeding.

Now there was there nigh unto the mountains a great herd of swine feeding.

By including the hepB vaccine as part of a pentavalent (five in one) vaccine, the Alliance has already facilitated its delivery to children in 70 countries as part of routine immunizations.

The city is ruled by the congress of scientists who discovered the vaccine for the disease.

Members of the group have tricolpate pollen, or forms derived from it.

The plant was designed for the production of vaccine for foot and mouth disease, which is endemic in Iraq.

All the demons begged him, saying, Send us into the pigs, that we may enter into them.

And all the devils besought him, saying, Send us into the swine, that we may enter into them.

aaalana, from Aleppo, Syria, is excited the disease has not been detected in that country

But the first potential vaccine to be tested for efficacy recently failed miserably.

This work enabled Jonas Salk to make an effective polio vaccine.

Hepatitis B vaccine is an example of this type of vaccine.

Bee pollen, pollen collected from bees, is considered a health food by some people.

PRINCETON No one knows how the swine flu (H1N1) pandemic will evolve. Will it keep spreading, or will it fizzle?

Swine acts as an amplifying host and has a very important role in the epidemiology of the disease.

The fish also feed on waste from other animals, such as pigs, poultry, and buffalo.

There is an invisible beauty all around us, each grain with a story to tell ...

It's called retro vaccinology, and its implications extend way beyond that of just HIV.

Image from Flickr user Tam Tam.

A vaccine was developed in the next decade, and deaths began declining in earnest in 1924.