Chimps may provide safer smallpox vaccine - study

[tocqueville]

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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Chimpanzee blood may provide a safer vaccine against smallpox, U.S. researchers reported on Monday.

A vaccine made by splicing chimp and human antibodies was both safer and more effective than the current vaccine, which uses a live virus and has a high rate of side effects, the researchers reported.

"This is an important finding in the race to develop effective measures against a potential bioterror attack involving the deadly smallpox virus," said Dr. Elias Zerhouni, director of the National Institutes of Health.

"It is imperative that we have effective treatments available that everyone could use in the event of a bioterror attack," added Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, where the study was done.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060123/sc_nm/science_smallpox_dc

ok, ok, who are we going to choose as the first human guinea-pig ....?

[NC_Nurse]

1. Oh...

I thought you meant THE chimp..my mistake...;-)