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May 07, 2003

INTERNATIONAL IMMUNIZATION NEWS

"China Asks Swedish Researchers to Help Develop SARS Vaccine: Report"

Agence France Presse (www.afp.com/english/home) (05/06/03)

Researchers in Sweden will start work on a vaccine for severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS), at the request of their Chinese colleagues. Bror Morein, research director at Uppsala-based Isconova, said he received an email from a Beijing University professor asking for assistance in fighting SARS.  The procedure used by the Swedish scientists for the development of vaccines involved using molecules from a specific tree that grows in the Chilean Andes.  Work on the vaccine will begin when the scientists receive three of the coronavirus' genes from the Chinese researchers, but Morein warned that a working vaccine would not be available for at least two years.

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