Aventis, Chiron to Test Bird Flu Vaccine on Humans
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Aventis-Pasteur and Chiron Corp are due to start human testing of a vaccine against bird flu as early as this month, a World Health Organization (news - web sites) official said on Saturday, to try to prevent a pandemic that could kill
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Indonesia, the country hardest hit by bird flu, signed a preliminary deal Wednesday with U.S. drug manufacturer Baxter Healthcare Corp. to develop a human bird flu vaccine.
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JAKARTA, Indonesia -- Building a stockpile of bird flu vaccine would help ensure that poor countries do not lose out if a flu virus starts killing people worldwide, the World Health Organization's top flu official said yesterday.
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Chiron Corp. (CHIR.O) has won a contract to develop a human vaccine against a strain of bird flu that can infect people and "has the potential to trigger a modern-day pandemic," the U.S. government said on Tuesday.
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THURSDAY, Aug. 26 (HealthDayNews) -- A new vaccine that may help protect children against croup is being tested by scientists at St. Jude's Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tenn.
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The World Health Organization has invited Sanofi-Aventis SA, the world&#39;s biggest maker of flu vaccine, and 15 other companies to join government health officials in planning how to produce
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An international team of scientists isolates antibodies that could protect against bird flu in humans.
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GlaxoSmithKline may be able to produce a vaccine in mass quantities to protect humans from bird flu by next year, the drugmaker said Wednesday following encouraging results from a clinical trial.
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Chiron Corp. has asked British regulators to inspect its facility producing an experimental bird flu vaccine to make sure it doesn&#39;t run into the same contamination problems
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The first US vaccine against SARS, which swept parts of Asia and around the world in 2003, is ready to be tested in human volunteers, government researchers said on Monday.
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BANGKOK: Thailand plans to produce 100 million doses of bird flu vaccine to use on chickens if an outbreak that has left at least 11 people dead in the kingdom runs out of control, officials said Monday.
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British drug company GlaxoSmithKline Plc said on Thursday it would start a late-stage study of a flu vaccine, the latest effort to help stem the nation&#39;s vaccine shortage.
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Emeryville-based Chiron Corp. (CHIR) has asked British regulators to inspect its facility producing an experimental bird flu vaccine to make sure it doesn't run into the same contamination problems that forced ...
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Scientists said on Wednesday they had  made a breakthrough in the race to develop a drug for the H5N1  bird flu virus if it mutates into a form that can jump from  human to human.
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A vaccine to combat human bird flu could be ready as early as July, Indonesia said on Friday, adding it was prepared to use it immediately despite calls from the WHO to build up a stockpile first. Health Minister Siti Fadillah Supari said the World Health Organization's advice was not realistic in the case of Indonesia, which has the highest number of bird flu deaths.
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The first U.S. vaccine against SARS,  which swept parts of Asia and around the world in 2003, is  ready to be tested in human volunteers, government researchers  said on Monday.
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Chinese scientists have developed a new vaccine to prevent the spread of bird flu, according to state media.