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Volunteers to be isolated in test of bird flu vaccine
CHRIS SWINGLE ? STAFF WRITER ? JUNE 16, 2010
Unemployed or have lots of time off this summer?
Adults ages 18 to 49 can earn about $4,000 for having an experimental vaccine for bird flu sprayed into their nose and being quarantined in Rochester for about 12 days this summer ? twice.
A shorter study, already full, starts next week and requires just one vaccination and one quarantine stay, for about $2,000. Additional bird flu vaccine studies, which each require 20 people to get two doses about a month apart, are still recruiting participants. University of Rochester Medical Center announced Tuesday that it's renting an empty sixth-floor unit at Unity Health System's St. Mary's campus, 89 Genesee St., for four summers to conduct bird flu vaccine studies that require isolation. Rochester is the only site in the country currently doing these studies, funded by more than $15.5 million from the National Institutes of Health, said Dr. John Treanor, lead investigator.
The vaccines are made with live but weakened viruses, which aren't expected to infect participants or to transmit flu to others, said Treanor, chief of URMC's infectious disease division. The quarantine is done to be extra careful, he said. Study nurses will wear gowns, masks and eye protection. . .
more at: http://www.democratandchronicle.com/...353/1002/NEWS?
hat tip to CopitoSP
CHRIS SWINGLE ? STAFF WRITER ? JUNE 16, 2010
Unemployed or have lots of time off this summer?
Adults ages 18 to 49 can earn about $4,000 for having an experimental vaccine for bird flu sprayed into their nose and being quarantined in Rochester for about 12 days this summer ? twice.
A shorter study, already full, starts next week and requires just one vaccination and one quarantine stay, for about $2,000. Additional bird flu vaccine studies, which each require 20 people to get two doses about a month apart, are still recruiting participants. University of Rochester Medical Center announced Tuesday that it's renting an empty sixth-floor unit at Unity Health System's St. Mary's campus, 89 Genesee St., for four summers to conduct bird flu vaccine studies that require isolation. Rochester is the only site in the country currently doing these studies, funded by more than $15.5 million from the National Institutes of Health, said Dr. John Treanor, lead investigator.
The vaccines are made with live but weakened viruses, which aren't expected to infect participants or to transmit flu to others, said Treanor, chief of URMC's infectious disease division. The quarantine is done to be extra careful, he said. Study nurses will wear gowns, masks and eye protection. . .
more at: http://www.democratandchronicle.com/...353/1002/NEWS?
hat tip to CopitoSP