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Pitt to begin testing experimental bird flu vaccin
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    Posted: August 25 2006 at 10:06am
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review 
 
 
Pitt to begin testing experimental bird flu vaccine
 

 

By The Associated Press
Friday, August 25, 2006

PITTSBURGH (AP)-University of Pittsburgh researchers will soon begin testing an experimental bird flu vaccine using a $1.3 million federal grant.

Dr. Andrea Gambotto announced the genetically engineered vaccine in January, saying it protected 100 percent of mice and chickens tested with a strain of avian flu that has affected poultry and people in Asia.

Earlier this month, the National Institutes of Health gave Gambotto the two-year grant to create test batches of the vaccine to be used in clinical trials, the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review reported Friday.

There is currently no commercially available bird flu vaccine for people.

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