Bird flu vaccine in year: WHO
2006/12/7
BANGKOK, Thailand, AP
A safe and effective vaccine against bird flu could be available in a year, and if the world is facing a pandemic, the regulatory process could be speeded up to make it available even faster, a World Health Organization official said Wednesday.
Marie-Paule Kieny, director of WHO's Initiative for Vaccine Research, made the estimate at the end of a four-day meeting of about 200 vaccine researchers, scientists and public health experts from around the world.
The experts met at the seventh WHO Global Vaccine Research Forum to review developments against such diseases as malaria, dengue fever, AIDS, bird flu and human papillomavirus, which can lead to cervical cancer.
Kieny said the pace of development of a vaccine against the H5N1 bird flu virus depends on whether the world faces a pandemic with the potential to kill millions.
2006/12/7
BANGKOK, Thailand, AP
A safe and effective vaccine against bird flu could be available in a year, and if the world is facing a pandemic, the regulatory process could be speeded up to make it available even faster, a World Health Organization official said Wednesday.
Marie-Paule Kieny, director of WHO's Initiative for Vaccine Research, made the estimate at the end of a four-day meeting of about 200 vaccine researchers, scientists and public health experts from around the world.
The experts met at the seventh WHO Global Vaccine Research Forum to review developments against such diseases as malaria, dengue fever, AIDS, bird flu and human papillomavirus, which can lead to cervical cancer.
Kieny said the pace of development of a vaccine against the H5N1 bird flu virus depends on whether the world faces a pandemic with the potential to kill millions.