Boy Scouts at Camp Daniel Boone near Asheville are being checked for swine flu after 19 Scouts were sent home with flu symptoms last week. Camp executive Connie Bowes says no new cases were reported Monday.
The camp hosts a new group of about 700 campers from across the country each …

Sinovac Biotech Ltd. (NYSE Amex: SVA), a leading developer and provider of vaccines in China, announced today that it has completed construction of the H1N1 virus seed bank necessary to produce a virus antigen.
Sinovac received the seed virus from the US Center for Disease Control (CDC) on June 8, 2009 …

A U.S. health official said a swine flu vaccine could be available as early as October, but only if production and testing run smoothly this summer.
Anne Schuchat of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said the agency began shipping virus samples to manufacturers in the past several days. The …

A Maryland-based unit of AstraZeneca will share in an $811 million U.S. government order of components and tests of a swine-flu vaccine for stockpiles to protect health-care workers along with children and other vulnerable people.
The orders were placed with GlaxoSmithKline Plc, Novartis AG, CSL Ltd., MedImmune Inc. — which AstraZeneca …

Federal health officials said Friday that they will set aside $1 billion to jump-start commercial development of a vaccine against the new H1N1 flu virus now spreading worldwide.
The funding will be used to produce bulk supplies of two key components of a vaccine and to test them in humans. The …

The federal government has asked three drug companies to make enough swine flu vaccine to immunize at least 20 million people in key positions in health care, national security and emergency services, officials said yesterday.
The order, announced by Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius, is part of a $1 …