SARS

Chinese scientists begin testing SARS vaccine on humans

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, June 15th, 2004

Chinese scientists have begun testing a SARS vaccine on four volunteers at a Beijing hospital, state media said, in what appears to be the first such experiment on humans.

The volunteers, all in their 20s, were injected with the vaccine on at the Sino-Japanese Friendship Hospital under tight security, reported the Beijing Youth Daily and the Guangzhou Daily, two of China's largest newspapers.

A hospital official said she could not confirm that the tests took place.

Roy Wadia, a Beijing-based spokesman for the World Health Organization, said he believed China is the first to get to the human testing stage.

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