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               The news that WHO might declare a pandemic level 6 led to vaccien companies preparing to
               make as many as 4.9 billion vaccines against the so-called swine flu, ensuring them gigantic
               profits just from the sakes alone.




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                There's widespread expectation that the World Health Organization
               will declare a phase 6 pandemic alert this morning--the first such
               warning since 1968.

                But you can also expect the WHO's health experts to spend a
               considerable amount of time and effort reassuring the globe that this
               is not the deadly viral outbreak that has worried governments for
               generations. And vaccine developers are already well on the way to
               developing new jabs that guard against the new flu.

                "It's 24 hours a day," Dr. Giovanni Della Cioppa, head of Global
               Clinical Research & Development for Novartis Vaccines, tells
               FierceVaccines. "We are working to get this vaccine to the public as
               quickly as possible."

                WHO has been studying a phase 6 alert for weeks as evidence grows
               that the swine flu virus has taken hold in countries around the world.
               In Australia, there have been 1,000 confirmed cases, offering
               considerable data that the virus has extended outside of North
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