Initial Tests Show China’s Bird Flu Vaccine Safe
News out of China shows that a bird flu vaccine in initial test shows it appears to be safe and effective.
Initial tests show China’s bird flu vaccine safe for humans - Yahoo! News:
This is good news but very preliminary. It was only 120 subjects and there were no serious adverse reactions and the vaccine did stimulate the production of antibodies. It is interesting to note the antibodies were produced in 78.3% of the people above the standard of 70% accepted for the regular flu vaccine .
It will be several more years before there is enough information to really tell if this works. at least for now, it seems possible as several companies are working in this area and are reporting positive results.
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August 29th, 2006 at 11:46 am
However, the vaccines recently produced by India as well as by China, are aimed at the CURRENT H5N1 STRAIN and will be of no help if the virus mutates in to a real human virus strain.
As you know, H5N1 is a Bird Flu virus, which is NOT supposed to be killing people.
The new vaccines could well help with the current H5N1 strain, but if the virus mutates in to a human virus, as it did back in 1918, the above mentioned vaccines will not provide any protection against the new strain.
As of today, 143 humans have died of this virus, (that we know of) which is well over 50% of all those who were infected by it.
What is more, the H5N1 virus is now growing at twice the rate of its growth during the last year!
We have today added the “Initial Tests Show China’s Bird Flu Vaccine Safe” entry of your blog to The-Best-Bird-Flu-Blogs section of our site.
Hope that you will remain interested in the progress of this potentially devastating virus and that we will have more postings from you.
The-Best-Bird-Flu-Blogs team.
www.birdflubreakingnews.com
August 29th, 2006 at 12:59 pm
Sorry to burst your bubble, but the The-Best-Bird-Flu-Blogs team hates good news en only believes in doom. Anyone who is not a believer of the full doom-scenario receives a burst-your-bubble-warning.