Worldwide sales from the two drugs are expected to reach £3bn by January, but the company rejected claims it was exploiting the pandemic – stressing that profits would be much lower once development costs were taken into account.
Alan Hay, of the World Influenza Centre in London, suggested the first wave of illness may have already peaked but could not predict how far levels would fall in this phase of the pandemic.
In the near term, the recent US government order for H1N1 pandemic flu vaccine with a novel adjuvant may suggest there is some hope for approval of Glaxo's Cervarix in the second half.
Only belatedly have the risks of a global pandemic been recognised.
The explanation may be a simple consequence of his early death (caused by the Spanish flu pandemic) or the subsequent fame of Klimt, Kokoschka and others overshadowing his reputation.
While the pandemic has been fairly mild here, I think it will kill off for ever the notion (among doctors and the public alike) around influenza that "Oh, it's only flu".
The real problem would have been, and still is, a bird flu pandemic.
The chief executive, Andrew Witty, said the company had been preparing for a pandemic for the last three-and-a-half years and had spent more than £1bn to ensure its factories could crank up production at short notice.
Nabarro was involved in dealing with the H5N1 avian flu pandemic of 2005.
In one year during the influenza A H1N1 pandemic a total of 70 children died, 15 of whom were healthy before falling ill.
Hay, talking about the government's response to the pandemic, said: "We've only really observed this over the last few weeks so, in terms of response, of course people could have done more sooner but that again might have raised greater alarm over the population".
