Indeed, a spokesman for Sanofi's own vaccine unit, Sanofi Pasteur, says it could probably produce both types "in parallel" for a time, before ramping up full-scale production of a swine-flu vaccine.
Most of the world's flu vaccine is a killed virus, given as an injection; Europe's Sanofi Pasteur and Novartis are leading producers that use this approach.
大多数的流感疫苗都是灭活病毒,用来注射;欧洲的赛诺菲巴斯德和诺华是使用该技术的顶尖生产商。
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We’re also working in collaboration with Carlos Martin’s team in Zaragoza, Spain, to develop a new vaccine to replace BCG (which was also developed at the Pasteur Institute).