Fw: World's first testing of SARS vaccine by China

May 24, 2004

Hi Z'ev and Holger. Here's the article again. The URL works for me for some

reason.

Respectfully, Emmanuel Segmen

World's first testing of SARS vaccine by China

PTI | May 24, 2004 | 10:37 IST

Chinese scientists have started clinical trials of the world's first

vaccine against the deadly disease SARS on four young volunteers in Beijing, the

state media reported on Monday.

The volunteers were in good conditions on the first day of the world's

first clinical testing of a vaccine for Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome

(SARS), China Daily said.

The four volunteers, including three healthy male students and a female

from Beijing-based universities, were injected a SARS vaccine or a SARS-virus

free placebo on?Saturday afternoon, an official in charge of the experiment

said.

During two hours of observation period after the inoculation, no abnormal

reaction was observed and they left China-Japan Friendship Hospital in Beijing

where the testing was conducted.

The volunteers would take blood tests and be observed for reaction

everyday in the first three days, and the whole observation process would last

210 days.

Neither the volunteers nor the doctors were informed of whether the

injection is a vaccine or a SARS-virus free placebo, the report said.

The four are the first group of 36 healthy volunteers selected for the

testing. They will be inoculated either with the vaccine or a placebo.

Doctors of the hospital said they are well prepared to deal with any

emergencies that might happen to the volunteers.

Approving the first phase of the clinical testing in January this year,

China has become the first nation in the world to approve clinical testing of

the vaccine on humans.

The vaccine was developed by Beijing Kexing Bio-Product Company Limited.

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