Russian Scientists Start Testing New Vaccine Against Bird Flu
Posted on: Monday, 9 January 2006, 15:00 CST
Excerpt from report by Russian news agency Ekho Moskvy on 9 January
[No dateline, as received] Russian scientists are beginning to test a new vaccine against bird flu, the head of the microbiology and immunology department of the Sechenov Medical Academy in Moscow, Anatoliy Vorobyev, has told Ekho Moskvy radio.
He said that "the Flu Research Institute had already developed a vaccine against bird flu and had submitted the relevant documentation to the state regulating body. In the near future, in January, tests on volunteers will begin". Only after a necessary check that can take a long time, experts will decide whether the vaccine will be used or not.
Commenting on the spread of bird flu around the world, Vorobyev said that "the role of the bird flu virus in human pathology was being overestimated". "We must be alert but at the same time we shouldn't be scaring people," he said. Vorobyev went on to add that the mortality rate for bird flu was not higher than that for human flu.
[Passage omitted: known facts on symptoms; seasonal flu epidemic expected in Moscow soon]
Source: BBC Monitoring Former Soviet Union
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