DEERFIELD, Ill. (AP) – Specialty drug maker Baxter International Inc. says it’s in “full scale” production of a swine flu vaccine that will be commercially available in July.

The company based in Deerfield, Ill., made its announcement Friday, a day after the World Health Organization declared swine flu a global pandemic.

Baxter has said that its patented technology cuts in half the usual time it takes to develop a vaccine – to about 13 weeks instead of 26.

The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports 45 swine flu deaths nationwide.

Date: June 13, 2009
Source: Associated Press