Avian Influenza

U.S. prepares to test bird flu vaccines

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, March 22nd, 2005

The U.S. government is getting ready to test a bird flu vaccine and stockpiling both vaccine and antiviral drugs as the threat grows that a deadly strain of avian influenza will begin spreading from Asia.

Two million doses of vaccine are being stored in bulk form for possible emergency use and to test whether it maintains its potency, officials said.

United Nations officials warned that the Asian bird flu outbreak poses the "gravest possible danger" of becoming a global pandemic.

Dr. Julie Gerberding, director of the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told the National Press Club that, "It is a worrisome...

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