Children's Flu Study Begins in St. Louis
Posted on: Tuesday, 17 January 2006, 18:01 CST
A National Institutes of Health study to test an avian flu vaccine in children started Tuesday at Saint Louis University School of Medicine.
Recently, some strains of bird flu viruses have infected people in Asia, said Dr. Robert Belshe, director of the Center for Vaccine Development at the university. There is concern these new strains could cause a pandemic, but they are not infecting people in the United States at this time. Rather than wait for that possibility to occur the (NIH) is testing avian influenza vaccines.
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the NIH, has tested a new H5N1 avian influenza vaccine in healthy adults at clinical sites across the nation. Now that safety data are available from that adult study, Saint Louis University will test an investigational vaccine in children ages 2 to 9 -- a population that is especially vulnerable to acquiring influenza.
The study will involved a killed bird flu virus vaccine known as A/H5N1. Researchers will evaluate the vaccine's safety and ability to stimulate antibodies in children.
Officials said 120 children across the nation will participate in the study.
Source: United Press International
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