Hundreds volunteer for SLU swine flu vaccine study
July 24th, 2009
Saint Louis University has received 500 calls from people interested in volunteering to try a new swine flu vaccine.
“We haven’t gotten this many calls on a study since our smallpox vaccine research post-Sept. 11,” said Nancy Solomon, a university spokeswoman.
SLU’s Center for Vaccine Development is among eight sites picked to help develop a vaccine for swine flu, officially called H1N1 influenza.
The government wants several thousand volunteers nationwide to test the flu shots.
Last year SLU received a $23.7 million contract from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, to serve as a Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Unit. SLU has been funded as a VTEU since 1989.
For more information about SLU’s vaccine research, call 314-977-6333.
Swine flu could strike up to 40 percent of Americans over the next two years, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta said Friday, according to media reports. That means about twice the number of people who usually get sick in a normal flu season would be struck by swine flu, according to the CDC.
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July 25th, 2009 at 11:03 am
You couldn’t pay me enough to take their witch’s brew! Damn fools.
July 25th, 2009 at 2:30 pm
With the government planning to de-populate many of us, why would anyone volunteer to be the first ones eliminated? Possibly the ‘brew’ given to the volunteers will not be the same potent brew forced upon the rest of us.
I cannot believe what is happening to us in our country. But how easily it has come about as the majority of Americans sleep-walk.
July 25th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
Wow…I guess they must have people so scared of the flu that they are lining up like guinea pigs marching right into the death trap!! people are really asleep!!!