Experimental flu vaccine kills homeless in Poland

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Homeless people die after bid flu vaccine trial in Poland http://www.telegrap h.co.uk/news/ worldnews/ europe/poland/ 2235676/Homeless -people-die- after-bid- flu-vaccine- trial-in- Poland.html 02 Jul 2008 Three Polish doctors and six nurses are facing criminal prosecution after a number of homeless people died following medical trials for a vaccine to the H5N1 bird-flu virus. The medical staff, from the northern town of Grudziadz, are being investigated over medical trials on as many as 350 homeless and poor people last year, which prosecutors say involved an untried vaccine to the highly-contagious virus. Authorities claim that the alleged victims received £1-2 to be tested with what they thought was a conventional

flu vaccine but, according to investigators, was actually an anti bird-flu drug.Penn Study Pinpoints New DNA Weapon Against Bird Flu http://www.ens- newswire. com/ens/jul2008/ 2008-07-02- 01.asp 02 Jul 2008 A new way to vaccinate against avian influenza that tricks the immune system into mounting a broad response against multiple strains of the disease, including strains to which the immune system was never exposed, has been devised by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine. If proven in humans, the Penn research could lead the way to prepare against an outbreak of pandemic avian flu. Dr. Weiner sits on the scientific advisory board of VGX, and collaborates with Wyeth, Merck, BMS, Althea, and Virxsys, as well as other companies on DNA vaccine technologies. [see: Killer flu recreated in the lab http://news. bbc.co.uk/ 2/hi/health/ 3719990.stm 07 Oct 2004. See: CLG's Flu 'Oddities'.] http://www.legitgov .org/flu_ oddities. html