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Kelly Chan

A mainland pharmaceutical company said yesterday it had developed a vaccine for swine flu  that could be on the market within months.
'We need to conduct 13 tests to ensure the vaccines are safe and effective,' Pan Ruowen, the deputy director of Hualan Biological Engineering in Xinxiang , Henan , told broadcaster CCTV. '[Laboratory tests] would take 14 days and the period cannot be shortened because we have to carry out the tests strictly according to standard.'
The company will conduct laboratory tests next month before spending  between 40 and 50 days on clinical tests. 
About six pharmaceutical companies on the mainland, including Hualan, obtained the seed virus strain from laboratories recognised by the World Health Organisation.
Hualan said it had started manufacturing the vaccine on June 13 and it expected to produce 600,000 doses a day. But experts told CCTV that people could not inject other seasonal flu vaccines if they had used swine flu vaccines.
In a video conference yesterday, State Food and Drug Administration commissioner Shao Mingli  told officials to monitor the vaccine market tightly to prevent counterfeit or substandard vaccines. He said manufacturers should develop an evaluation system to monitor the effectiveness of the vaccine.  
The health and education ministries also launched a guideline for schools, universities and other education organisations to instruct them on how to prevent infections among students. 
Two American tourists in Jiangsu  were among 27 newly confirmed swine flu infections on the mainland yesterday. There were 11 cases in Guangdong and six in Shanghai.
The American tourists developed fevers in Suzhou  and were tested positive by the city's Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
 The centre said the man and the woman, both in their 20s, arrived in Shanghai from New York last Wednesday and reached Suzhou by train on Friday. They are in stable condition in hospital. People who were in close contact with them are being kept under observation. 




Mainland company says it has developed a swine flu vaccine