Glaxo bird flu vaccine given the go-ahead

I wrote over a month ago about Japan becoming the first country in the world to vaccinate key workers against bird flu. The Guardian have reported that GlaxoSmith-Kline has became the first drug manufacturer in Europe to be granted marketing approval for its pre-pandemic influenza vaccine. There have been 382 identified human cases of bird flu worldwide since 2003, 241 of them fatal. Follow the link to find out more.