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May 14, 2003

INTERNATIONAL IMMUNIZATION NEWS

"Russian Scientists Outline Plans for Work on SARS Vaccine"

BBC News (www.bbc.co.uk) (05/13/03)

Oleg Kiselev, director of the Institute of Influenza in St. Petersburg, Russia, says specialists at the institute, Moscow's molecular medicine experts, and World Health Organization researchers will work together to produce a vaccine to protect against severe acute respiratory syndrome by the end of 2004.  The researchers plan to use an attenuated version of the coronavirus in the vaccine.  They have also selected a genetic engineering structure that will serve as a foundation for the biologic formula of protection against the virus.

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