Avian Influenza

Bird flu vaccine expected to be ready by 2007

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, December 14th, 2004

A vaccine to protect humans from the deadly bird flu virus is expected to be ready by 2007 after clinical trials are carried out in Thailand, health officials said November 24, 2004.

Avian influenza devastated poultry farms across Asia this year, forcing the cull of tens of millions of birds. The virus spread to humans, killing 20 in Vietnam and 12 in Thailand.

Thai health authorities isolated the virus from five human cases and sent samples for vaccine research to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta, Georgia, said Thawat Suntrajarn, director-general of the Department of Communicable Disease Control.

"They will use...

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