Saturday, January 28, 2006

H5N1 News: U.S. Medical Centers Seeking Volunteers to Test Bird Flu Vaccine

An AFP newswire article, via PhysOrg.com, reports that:

Medical centers in four US states are seeking volunteers for the first human testing of a bird flu vaccine made in Britain by Chiron Corporation, researchers said.

Stanford Medical Center, in Palo Alto near San Francisco, is one of four centers recruiting "healthy subjects" to be injected with "inactive influenza A/H5N1 vaccine," said research assistant Ernesto Martin Gonzalez.

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