as dr. faucimentioned as one of the constraints for current vaccine development. finally, the prospects and progress in flu vaccine, i will go through these recently. we know that clearly there was the great 1918 spanish influenza and one of the problems at the time was we didn't even know the ideologies of the flu when it occurred. any thought of vaccine was out of the question but thanks to some of the work from the intramural scientists it has been possible to reconstruct the 1918 influenza virus. what we have been able to do at the vaccine research center is to take the new technologies, specifically dna vaccines that dr. fauci described to you, going back to the gene from the 1918 jean, if we use this vaccine to immunize in experimental animals with either the naturally occurring hemagglutinin or one that contains a small mutation that might make it a little less likely to create a problem should anything be combined. with protection against animals in the 1918 lethal strain. you can see the

dr. anthony fauci. linda is on the democrats' line in cells vary massachusetts. >> caller: good morning, seize and and dr. fauci. i'm excited. i think this is the third time i've been able to get in and talk to you on a different subject because i am a health educator myself. one of the concerns i have about the whole influenza epidemic in terms of someone who is trying to educate patients and encourage them to get the vaccine is the we anecdotally the vaccine is distorted it. my experience it didn't go to those priority groups there were headlines recently about that where people in wall street and some lawyers and wallsten and that kind of thing got their vaccine prior to health care workers getting them. where i worked we didn't get our seasonal influences until mid december which was a private sector screwup because our private supplier decided to take the vaccine and distribute to the more clients to give them more business which is disconcerted to me. second we had residence who were elderly who h

thank you. >> thank you, dr. fauci. from our next two speakers thunder we'll take q and a from those in the room and on the web. our next speaker will speak about influenza vaccines the next generation. dr. gary nabel director of research center at the institute of ailery and research diseases. dr. nabel. >> thank you. what i'd like to do is to share with you some of the perspectives that we have here at n.i.h. i direct the vaccine research center. and what we're trying to do in our efforts here is not so much prepare for defendant distribution of vaccine -- prepare for direct defendant distribution of vaccine against this year's flu, but ask them the question what can we do in the coming years so we don't have to suffer through the same set of circumstances that we did during this time. just to give you an introduction to the vaccine research center, we're low kate here on campus. just to orient you an overview of the n.i.h. from an aerial perspective, we're over on this end of the campus here in building one. the r.c.

dr. anthony fauci thanks so much for being with us. dr. anthony fauci joined us.day show. the leading republican on the house homeland security committee says the nigerian man accused of taking the terrorist threat. it should be tried in military court. it would be difficult if he got legal rights in civilian courts including the right to a lawyer. more on the violence in iran. the british ambassador is summed to file complaint over western support over antigovernment protest. out it was said backed by the brittain, u.s. and other countries. iran forces continue to round up protesters. arrests include the sister of a nobel peace lawyer rent and an update on treaty negotiations between russia and united states. vladimir put sin asking about missile development update under an exchange for new arms treaty. they're working on the 1991 strategic arms reduction that expáq" on november fifth. it was hoped that agreement could be reached. those are hqpdlines on c-span radio. >> the nigh nature of most human enterprises to ask yourself an as an introspective way and by do

and for example, the dr. fauci mentioned the issue of adjuvanted vaccines which we have the ones that could have been used in the united states this year are not licensed products. however, we have been collecting data on those, and if they were to be needed, this is the kind of pathway we have available. but even try to licensure, we can evaluate them. and then we got a lot in the last several months working closely with barda and manufacturers. people don't realize that once you produce the vaccine, and certainly the biggest factor in the gap between supply and demand this year has been the slow growth of the virus, you know, the virus just didn't want to behave. and every time a manufacturer though they have improved that growth, it didn't behave again. that's the biggest factor. but there's also a factor of getting that vaccine material once you have grown into vials. and we have tried to compress that by bringing on board additional capacity. now, i want to end up talking about the new technologies, and what a

i happened borrow this one from dr. fauci, but the point here is to contrast what life was like before vaccines were available and what life is like after vaccines are available with the market decline in diseases. i'm sorry to say i'm old enough to remember in my medical training when you take a history with the parent of a child coming would write down the usual childhood infections. now we refer to those as vaccine disease is so again how much things have shifted over time. but we are here today to talk about how these advances come about. and other dr. fauci's lights link to the jorde report which is nih's periodic snapshots of what is going on in vaccine research and development relief features a few components of how we get to the ability to actually have these vaccines and have these impacts. we are accelerating the technological dances and taking advantage of what technology may be available not necessarily the ones directed against pacific diseases but those that can be applied to those diseases. to design vaccine fo

dr. anthony fauci. democrat line in massachusetts. >> caller: good morning, c-span and good morning, dr. fauci. >>. >> guest: good "morning call" this is third time i've been able to talk to you. each time on a different subject because i'm a. concerns about influenza epidemic and trying to educate patients and encourage them to get the vaccine is the way that, anecdotally at least the vaccine was distributed. from my experience really didn't go to priority groups. there were he had headlines -- headlines recently about that. people in wall street and lawyers in boston that kind of thing got their vaccine prior to health care workers getting them. where i work, we didn't get the seasonal influenza until mid-december, which was a private sector screw-up. because our private supplier decided to take that vaccine and distribute it to their more, their clients who gave them more business which was kind of disconcerting to me. secondly, we had residents who are elderly who, had influenza-like illness during

dr. anthony found she -- anthony fauci gives us an update on the h1n1 flu virus. following that, and ronald neumann and william island, at 7:00 a.m. eastern here on c- span. >> tomorrow, american univ. it holds their campaign management institute. you will hear democratic strategist discuss how to target voters. that is 10:15 a.m. eastern on c- span2. c-span thursday, a look back at world leaders including the dalai lama, ted kennedy, ronald reagan, walter cronkite, colin powell and robert byrd. then i looked at what is ahead. vladimir putin discusses his future on a call-in program. the creator of the subway and the co-founder of "guitar hero" on innovation and entrepreneurship. >> now, a senate hearing. they testified about the panel's findings. according to the panel, nasa will need an additional $3 billion a year to achieve its human spaceflight goals. this is almost two hours a. >> good afternoon. this is an exceptionally important topic. i think that buzzer may tell us that a vote is starting. no, it is not. it is a quorum call. hollywood. we really want to