Failed Vaccine Mystery Solved
Friday, December 19, 2008 - 18:21
in Health & Medicine
Scientists have figured out why a respiratory syncytial virus vaccine used in 1966 to inoculate children against the infection instead caused severe respiratory disease and effectively stopped efforts to make a better one. The findings could restart work on effective killed-virus vaccines not only for RSV but other respiratory viruses, researchers say.
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