1.   A freeze drier, experts said, has applications in both vaccine production and the preparation of germs for dissemination in war.

2.   A totally new vaccine would be needed to protect against this flu strain, and flu vaccine production takes four to six months.

3.   After the war, the plant was converted back to vaccine production.

4.   But in a conference call Thursday, Zelicoff reassured health and military officials that he would recommend more research rather than any changes in vaccine production.

5.   But he said the general approach to vaccine production through genomes was valid.

6.   Drug companies have told the administration and Congress that they want changes in antitrust laws to allow them to work together on vaccine production.

7.   Meanwhile, it must be considered that there are enormous economic and legal barriers to vaccine production.

8.   Merck said that it curtailed vaccine production over the summer because it was making changes at its manufacturing plant in West Point, Pa.

9.   Schundler said that his earlier proposal to use cowpox, a benign virus related to smallpox, to speed vaccine production was only one part of his anti-terrorism agenda.

10.   That same year, Henderson, the eradication pioneer, began calling for new vaccine production to deal with a deliberate release of the virus.