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To: RealMuLan who wrote (2028)	12/16/2003 12:05:13 PM
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China ready to test SARS vaccines 1 hour, 35 minutes ago Add Health - AFP to My Yahoo! BEIJING (AFP) - Three kinds of SARS (news - web sites) vaccine are ready for clinical trials after passing expert evaluations, Chinese medical authorities said. Yin Hongzhang, head of the State Food and Drug Administration (news - web sites)'s biological products section, said Tuesday the developers of the vaccines had declared their achievements to the agency and were preparing detailed information for inspection. "We are speeding up checks on their claims but the necessary steps cannot be omitted," Yin was quoted as saying by the Xinhua news agency. "These vaccines might enter clinical testing at an early date. "But their effectiveness and safety will only be approved after years of research," he said. Last month, Yin said China was expected to begin testing a SARS vaccine on humans by the end of the year, after trials on monkeys showed the vaccine was effective in preventing infection. Monkeys who were inoculated with the vaccine experienced no serious side effects after they were exposed to the potentially deadly virus. Scientists at the Beijing Kexing Bio-product Co. began developing a vaccine at the end of April during the SARS outbreak, Xinhua said. Medical experts around the world have warned SARS may be seasonal and might return this winter, putting China on alert against a resurgence and intensifying efforts to find a vaccine. Vice Minister of Health Huang Jiefu said Tuesday he was confident China will be able to control the virus if it returns, saying great progress had been made since this year's outbreak. The World Health Organization (news - web sites) has said a vaccine will take at least two years to develop. The first clinical trial on a test vaccine could begin in January but successful development would take far longer to complete, the WHO said in a statement following a meeting of international researchers at its headquarters in Geneva last month. SARS originally emerged in south China's Guangdong province at the end of last year, and eventually struck 32 countries, infecting some 8,000 people and killing close to 800 before subsiding in the summer. China was worst hit, accounting for 349 fatalities and 5,327 infections. story.news.yahoo.com