EMEA Recommends Authorisation Of First Pre-Pandemic Influenza Vaccine, Europe

The European Medicines Agency recommended the authorisation of the first ‘pre-pandemic vaccine’ for humans against influenza caused by the H5N1 virus. This is an avian influenza (’bird flu’) virus strain that has the potential to evolve into a pandemic influenza virus affecting humans.

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Filed under: Bird Flu on February 26th, 2008