Across Asia: Vietnam

Clinical trials for H5N1

Vietnam has started clinical trials for developing a human vaccine for the H5N1 virus, researchers said yesterday in the Southeast Asian country that has recorded 52 deaths from bird flu.

Eleven volunteers, all researchers, received their second dosage of the trial vaccine yesterday inside spotlessly-clean medical rooms of a company run by the National Institute of Hygiene and Epidemiology in Hanoi.