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COMMENTS: Trial Shots
The National Institutes for Health hope to begin clinic trials for their new influenza vaccine on 2,500 adult volunteers in eight cities at the start of August, ABC's Lisa Stark told us. If the shots are safe and effective, they plan to have 100m doses manufactured by mid-October: "Vaccine development has proven difficult. This virus grows slowly," Stark explained, referring to the H1N1 strain. CBS' in-house physician Jennifer Ashton warned that 43m people were vaccinated back in 1976 against a similar 'flu strain. That program "backfired--the outbreak never materialized. Approximately 500 people suffered severe side effects; 25 died."
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