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Science 12 August 2005:
Vol. 309. no. 5737, p. 996
DOI: 10.1126/science.309.5737.996b
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AVIAN INFLUENZA:
'Pandemic Vaccine' Appears to Protect Only at High Doses

Martin Enserink

An ongoing trial suggests that a vaccine can protect humans from H5N1, the bird flu strain many worry may evolve into a pandemic. But the vaccine seems to work only at doses so high that the world's flu vaccine factories could not churn out enough to combat a pandemic, some flu experts say.

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