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Pandemics
New findings from J. Wu and co-authors in the area of pandemics published
May 5th, 2009
According to a study from Beijing, People's Republic of China, "Avian influenza A virus H5N1 has the potential to cause a pandemic. Adjuvants and whole-virion vaccines are regarded as antigen sparing for pandemic vaccines." "A double-blind, randomized trial was performed from 28 August to 22 December 2007 in 402 adults; 301 adults were randomly assigned to receive 2 doses of an inactivated, aluminum-adjuvanted, whole-virion H5N1 vaccine containing 5, 10, or 15 mu g of hemagglutinin per dose 28 days apart, and 101 of them received 2 doses of 10 mg of vaccine 14 days apart. The vaccine was manufactured from the recombinant A/Vietman/1194/2004 (NIBRG14) strain. Blood...
Source: TB & Outbreaks Week (2009-05-05)
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