Russia to start bird flu vaccine testing in January
A group of volunteers is to start testing thу vaccine against bird flu virus H5N1, informed the Russian Federation Chief Sanitary Inspector Gennady Onischenko.
"It is a strain, exposed in 1994 in China, when people were getting ill. It is not a pandemic strain", he said. "We are going to develop a vaccine-candidate out of it, which is not to come into operation as a vaccine of broad-spectrum"
According to his words, in case of pandemic strain appearance, this specific vaccine should also appear in the sphere of practical medicine.
The head of Federal Service for Monitoring Consumer Rights Protection and Human Welfare noted, that no cases of people?s infection with bird flue H5N1 have been detected, and there have been no data on the virus communication from human to human.
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