Too early for H7N9 virus vaccine: Expert
By Tan Weizhen
08 April
SINGAPORE ? It is currently too early to develop a vaccine for the H7N9 virus, said visiting infectious diseases expert Dr David Heyman, Professor of infectious disease epidemiology at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. He added that it could mutate to become more severe.
Speaking at a media conference at the Regional Health Summit, held in Singapore for the first time, he also cautioned against early predictions, saying that the virus could also turn out less severe. As there is no database on when pandemic streams developed in past, it is also difficult to use any previous data to predict the nature of this virus now, added Dr Heyman...
