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Tuesday, November 23, 2010

Australia : Seasonal flu shot may soon be thing of the past

Via ABC News :

" A vaccine developed in Canberra to protect against all strains of influenza will be trialed in Indonesia.

Since the first outbreak of swine flu in the early 1980's, researchers at the Australian National University (ANU) have been working overtime to develop such a vaccine.

Now the product is ready to trial and a Canberra vaccine company has secured its first customers.

Professor Tim Hirst from Gamma Vaccines says Indonesia is a perfect candidate for the trial.
"We decided that Indonesia, being one of the closest countries, it has a very large population which would be devastated by a new pandemic influenza if it were to occur, it would be very serious," he said.

ANU Immunologist Professor Arno Mullbacher spent decades working on the vaccine and is also pleased with the choice of trial nation."

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