|
medpundit |
||
 |
 |
|
Sunday, February 05, 2006Two teams working on better vaccines for use against a potential bird flu pandemic have announced progress in the past week, but influenza experts are skeptical. The two labs both used a human cold virus, called an adenovirus, to carry pieces of DNA from H5N1 flu in a vaccine. Both labs -- one at the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and one at the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center -- were able to protect mice against fatal H5N1 infections. But neither study was even mentioned at a meeting of top U.S. flu experts in Washington this week. "It's just not that new," Dr. John Treanor, a flu vaccine expert at the University of Rochester in New York, said in an interview. "There are a zillion vaccines that protect in mice. On the grand scale of things, it's nowhere near to being a vaccine you would see in humans." It's true, it will be years before any new vaccine will be ready to be used in people. Just think of all the testing for side effects that would need to be done. posted by Sydney on 2/05/2006 01:44:00 PM 0 comments 0 Comments: |
|
