After a lot of different inefficiencies have come to light with production of influenza vaccine this year, the manufacturers of the five different influenza vaccines have announced plans to do better next year.

Manufacturers To Boost Production For 2009

Washington, D.C.- After a lot of different inefficiencies have come to light with production of influenza vaccine this year, the manufacturers of the five different influenza vaccines have announced plans to do better next year.

The top five makers have announced that they will make a new record amount of influenza vaccine for 2009, as much as 143 million doses.

That would entail manufacturing more then 3 million doses more than was produced for 2008. It is rather hard to explain, as the request for the number of flu vaccine doses may fall because the vaccine was only about 44 percent effective this year, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention out of Atlanta Georgia.

Every year that the flu vaccine is not a good match tends to make people who received the flu vaccine wary, and tend to not want to get the vaccine the next year if it didn’t work for them.

Health professionals and medical officials will gather at a national influenza summit that will be hosted and sponsored by the American Medical Association, and by the CDC. Influenza is a serious disease for anyone of any age, and it is thought to cause about 36,000 deaths yearly in North America.