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Russians Join Bird-Flu Vaccine Test


One of the volunteers in the Mechnikov tests receives an injection (epa) May 30, 2006 -- A research institute in Russia says it has begun testing a bird-flu vaccine for humans.


The director of the Mechnikov Virology and Epidemiology Research Institute, Vitaly Zverev, says a total of 240 volunteers between the ages of 18 and 55 will be involved.


The subjects will not be hospitalized during the tests, which are expected to end by mid-August.


(Interfax, ITAR-TASS)

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