Friday, October 21, 2005

H5N1 News: Hungarian bird flu vaccine said to be effective

A Reuters newswire article, via MSNBC, reports that:

A Hungarian vaccine against the deadly bird flu has definitely proved to be effective, final results from tests on humans showed, Hungary’s health minister Jeno Racz told local news agency MTI on Friday.

“Now it’s definitely proved that the vaccine is effective (on humans)... based on our data, the vaccine is 100 percent effective,” Racz was quoted as saying.

Hungary’s government announced on Wednesday that initial human tests proved promising on the vaccine, which is applicable for the deadly H5N1 form of the virus.

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