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Article: FINDING BIRD FLU VACCINE COULD TAKE 6 MONTHS.(NEWS)
- Article from:
- The Cincinnati Post (Cincinnati, OH)
- Article date:
- December 30, 1997
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Byline: Lance Gay Scripps Howard staff reporter
Scientists are racing to develop a new vaccine to deal with a virulent new Hong Kong chicken flu but say it could take six months to find a way of producing it in volume sufficient for mass innoculations.
Dr. Pamela McInnes, director of respiratory research at National Institute for Allergy and Infectious Diseases, said traditional methods of making flu vaccines by incubating the virus in egg medium won't work with the new flu virus - named H5N1 - because the Hong Kong virus kills eggs.
Scientists stress that they don't yet know if a vaccine will be needed, or whether the Hong Kong outbreak will ...
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