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From: bob zagorin3/7/2006 1:17:08 PM
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U.S. Approves Development
Of Second Bird-Flu Vaccine
Associated Press
March 6, 2006 11:41 a.m.

U.S. health officials have authorized the development of a second bird-flu vaccine, Health and Human Services Secretary Mike Leavitt announced Monday.

The government has several million doses of a first bird flu vaccine, but that vaccine was based on a sample of virus taken from Vietnam in 2004. The virus is believed to have mutated since then, and the form now circulating in Africa and Europe may be different, health officials said.

Mr. Leavitt, speaking at an immunization conference, said he has authorized the National Institutes of Health and the federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to begin working on a second vaccine.
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