December 08, 2005

Volunteers Receive Bird Flu Vaccine in Study

Since late March, McDuff and 149 other volunteers have been coming to the university's Center for Vaccine Development as part of the high-stakes clinical trial. Three sites nationwide were selected to test the body's response to a scientifically manipulated version of the H5N1 virus, which since 2003 has killed at least 69 men, women and children across Asia. The genesis of the test strain, in fact, was taken from a Vietnamese girl who was one of those 69. (Washington Post)

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