Clinical Trial for H5N1 Bird Flu Vaccine

Since the virus was first detected in Guangdong Province, China in 1996, H5N1 (Bird Flu) has received much attention as the fear of a global spread of the disease mounted. Initially, H5N1 was considered merely interesting; however, alarm bells began to ring when it spread through live-poultry markets in Hong Kong, and eventually to humans, in 1997. The virus killed 6 of 18 infected people.

Now, a published clinical trial of a whole-virus H5N1 vaccine derived from a cell culture raises new hopes for a vaccine against the deadly virus. … [visit site to read more]

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