Human Tests of Avian Flu Vaccine Underway
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
U.S. health officials said Wednesday they had started human tests of a vaccine against avian flu.
The vaccine, made by Sanofi Pasteur, will be tested in 450 healthy adults in Rochester, N.Y.; Baltimore; and Los Angeles, the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases reported. The vaccine is made from an inactivated H5N1 avian flu virus isolated in 2004. The early study is to test the vaccine’s safety, not whether it protects against the infection.
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