by Thanh Hai
Ha Noi — The first large-scale trial of a locally produced H5N1 vaccine kicked off on Saturday.
The volunteers are 30 students and staff from the Military Medical Institute (MMI) in the capital. The vaccine, developed from monkey kidney cells, employs the latest in Vietnamese bio-technology. It was produced by the Vaccine and Bio-technology Products Company No. 1 (VABIOTECH) from the National Hygiene and Epidemiology Institute and was four years in the making. All of the volunteers are healthy…
