Vaccine Research
A major new vaccine research center has opened at Oxford University. Report
Researchers at the University of Texas at San Antonio have won a $1.8 million NIH grant to study a new vaccine for Chlamydia. Story
Vaccine market
Vietnam has begun to take emergency measures to prevent bird flu in animals from jumping to humans. The virus has been found in birds in seven of the country's provinces. Report
Doctors say that a resistance to Tamiflu and a vaccine that fails to protect people from the circulating B strain has made it hard to contain this year's outbreak of the flu. Story
A Chinese pharma company says that it has retrieved most of the rabies vaccine it began hunting for after a test revealed a dangerous ingredient in the jab. Story
Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics has voluntarily withdrawn five lots of the seasonal flu vaccine Fluvirin after tests revealed variations of potency. Story
Human Genome Sciences has begun shipping doses of ABthrax in a deal that's worth at least $150 million. The doses are being stockpiled in the U.S. Report