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8.5 Mitigating the Risk
Vaccination is an obvious mitigation measure for drastically
reducing the pandemic risk.The current practice of
vaccine production is too slow to respond to the emergence
of an unfamiliar and unexpected virus. However,
using a technique called reverse genetics, it may be possible
to engineer the seed strain of a pandemic virus, and
mass-produce it rapidly in mammalian cell cultures.The
WHO is promoting clinical trials of a vaccine made using
reverse genetics.
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