On Monday, a World Health Organization official said that the vaccine that aided in keeping a control on the swine flu outbreak was found to be effectual.
The health authorities should now speed up the velocity and the amount of the production of these vaccines to prepare for the next global epidemic.
Last month, the organization announced that the outbreak of swine flu, which began in June 2009, had ended. It is notable that the deadly disease took a toll on 18,600 people across the globe. However, authorities feel that there would been greater loss, where a massive number of people would succumbed to death.
According to WHO data, around 350 million doses of the vaccine were doled out around the world. At a news conference on the sidelines of an influenza conference in Hong Kong, WHO official David Wood said that extensive use of vaccines were quite helpful in containing the number of deaths that might have taken place in the absence of the vaccine.
It is said that the vaccine was able to provide defense in up to 95% of cases.
Wood, the Quality and Safety Team Coordinator for the WHO's immunization and vaccines department said, "That gives us considerable hope for the future, for the future pandemics, that the technologies that we have to actually make the vaccines are effective.