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Pandemics
Studies conducted at J. Mayrhofer et al on pandemics recently published
June 24th, 2009
"The timely development of safe and effective vaccines against avian influenza virus of the H5N1 subtype will be of the utmost importance in the event of a pandemic. Our aim was first to develop a safe live vaccine which induces both humoral and cell-mediated immune responses against human H5N1 influenza viruses and second, since the supply of embryonated eggs for traditional influenza vaccine production may be endangered in a pandemic, an egg-independent production procedure based on a permanent cell line," scientists in Orth, Austria report. "In the present article, the generation of a complementing Vero cell line suitable for the production of safe poxviral vaccines...
Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-06-24)
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