I have been involved in the studies in the UK at the Churchill hospital in Oxford for about 18 months.
I have had a trial vaccination and follow up blood tests etc since the start but have been waiting for a booster vaccination for approx 5 months now.
It keeps getting put back and back as new strains are being tested etc.
Has any other ATS'er been/is involved in any bird flu vaccination studies and do we all believe that we may be saved by what I am doing???
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I'm not involved in anything, but I did read that UK-based Acambis has had successful clinical trials with their ACAM-FLU-A vaccine. The vaccine is
being developed to be a once-in-a-lifetime vaccine against type A influenza, as it acts on a different protein than conventional vaccinations, and
this new target protein doesn't appear to mutate. Furthermore, since all pandemic influenzas are of type A (including H5N1), it does have the
potential to be a vaccination against bird flu that could be stockpiled in advance of a pandemic.
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