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Article: Vietnam tests bird flu vaccines among humans

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April 21, 2008
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Vietnam tests bird flu vaccines among humans

HANOI, April 21 (Xinhua) -- Vietnam has conducted its first large- scale trial of a locally-produced H5N1 vaccine on 30 volunteers, local newspaper Vietnam News reported Monday.

The trial starting last weekend was implemented on healthy volunteers aged 18-45, who are students and staff from the Hanoi capital-based Military Medical Institute.

The vaccine developed from monkey kidney cells was produced by the Vaccine and Biotechnology Products Company No.1 under the National Hygiene and Epidemiology Institute. The vaccine research and ...

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