Vaccine Campaign


By Maggie Fox

The U.S. government will pay for any vaccination program against the H1N1 swine flu, and may encourage schools to help vaccinate children, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said on Thursday.

The government is also considering buying even more antiviral drugs, including more of GlaxoSmithKline’s inhaled drug Relenza and pediatric doses of Roche AG’s Tamiflu, officials told a swine flu “summit” at the National Institutes of Health.

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