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Quick vaccine gets off the starting blocks

Common cold helps grow swift protection against bird flu.

Researchers in the United States have unveiled a new, faster way to produce vaccines against the H5N1 bird-flu virus. They claim that the technique can create a vaccine against a specific strain within 36 days. This could permit a speedy response should the virus acquire the ability to spread easily from human to human.

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Posted by Michael Hopkin on January 27, 2006 05:34 PM |

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I would like to comment on the misleading description of an adenovirus vector as the common cold virus in the news item and in the summary on the drug development news page.
Adenoviruses can cause a number of different diseases, some quite serious, while some adenoviruses cause common cold symptoms in some patients. Adenovirus vectors should of course not cause any kind of disease. Human rhinoviruses are oftem called THE common cold virus, because they rarely cause anything more serious. However many other virus species from various families also can cause common colds.

Posted by: Cornelia Schroeder | February 20, 2006 01:35 PM

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