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SARS vaccine approved for human trials
By Wang Zhenghua (China Daily)
Updated: 2005-08-06 07:16
A SARS vaccine developed by a Beijing-based inspection and quarantine body is
now being tested in clinical trials.
Lan Wanli was
injected with SARS vaccine in Beijing, on May 22, 2004.
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According to an official with
the Beijing Entry-Exit Inspection and Quarantine Bureau, its vaccine for SARS
(severe acute respiratory syndrome) has been approved by government authorities,
and is ready for the patent application process.
"Our vaccine could be good for three years before it is injected into
people," said the official on Friday, who only gave his name as Dong.
"It lasts longer than other vaccines for the epidemic," he said.
The vaccine that was invented last October could also be produced in massive
amounts, he said, serving to prevent an outbreak more effectively.
At least two research institutes in China are developing SARS vaccines.
Zhong Nanshan, president of the Chinese Medical Association, said last month
that scientists in Beijing would carry out trials among volunteers aged 20 to 60
to test the effectiveness of a SARS vaccine produced by a Beijing-based company.
Initial trials involving 36 volunteers at the Sino-Japanese Friendship
Hospital in Beijing found antibodies against the disease developed in all
volunteers, without obvious side effects.
The vaccine developed by the bureau has just completed tests on monkeys at
Wuhan University in Central China's Hubei Province.
Dong claimed antibodies were found in animals injected with the vaccine,
without symptoms of the deadly disease.
The official refused to disclose any details about the vaccine, including
when and where the trials would be carried out.
(China Daily 08/06/2005 page2)
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