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US scientists hoping for SARS vaccine in one to three years
Washington, Apr 30: US government scientists have launched efforts to develop a vaccine against SARS and are hopeful of achieving their goal in next one to three years, a media report said today.
Washington, Apr 30: US government scientists have launched efforts to develop a vaccine against SARS and are hopeful of achieving their goal in next one to three years, a
media report said today.
The national institutes of health will spearhead the
effort on multiple fronts to jump-start treatment and
prevention research of a rapidly mutating virus.
"When you have an infection in which the majority of the people, in fact the very large majority of the people, spontaneously recover, eliminating the virus from their body, that's a very big hint that you can get a vaccine," Anthony Fauci, who heads the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the NIH, was quoted as saying by the the Washington Post.
Experience with related diseases in domestic animals suggests a vaccine against severe acute respiratory syndrome can be devised within one year, although two to three years is more likely, scientists said.
"Quite frankly, I don't think SARS is going to fizzle us," Fauci said in an interview with the paper.
"This is a really unusual situation where you are in the midst of the evolution" of a new disease, he said, adding his plan is to pursue all approaches to vaccines in simultaneous research programmes.
However, the US Congress has yet to appropriate funds for such a research and it is not clear how the financial support will come.
"We're just going to do it, and we'll talk about the money later," Fauci said. Bureau Report
"When you have an infection in which the majority of the people, in fact the very large majority of the people, spontaneously recover, eliminating the virus from their body, that's a very big hint that you can get a vaccine," Anthony Fauci, who heads the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the NIH, was quoted as saying by the the Washington Post.
Experience with related diseases in domestic animals suggests a vaccine against severe acute respiratory syndrome can be devised within one year, although two to three years is more likely, scientists said.
"Quite frankly, I don't think SARS is going to fizzle us," Fauci said in an interview with the paper.
"This is a really unusual situation where you are in the midst of the evolution" of a new disease, he said, adding his plan is to pursue all approaches to vaccines in simultaneous research programmes.
However, the US Congress has yet to appropriate funds for such a research and it is not clear how the financial support will come.
"We're just going to do it, and we'll talk about the money later," Fauci said. Bureau Report