China testing Sars vaccine on humans

[CShine]

BEIJING - Chinese scientists have begun testing a Sars vaccine on four volunteers at a Beijing hospital, state media said on Sunday, in what appears to be the first such experiment on humans.

The volunteers, all in their 20s, were injected with the vaccine on Saturday at the Sino-Japanese Friendship Hospital under tight security, reported the Beijing Youth Daily and the Guangzhou Daily, two of China's largest newspapers.

The Beijing Youth Daily said the trial was conducted under tight security, with 'guards lining the hallway to the testing room'. Officials from the Ministry of Science and Technology and the Ministry of Health were present, it said.

The report said the four volunteers were 'calm and smiling' before undergoing the injections. They were the first batch out of 36 people chosen for the vaccine tests, it said.


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[kalian]

1. "Volunteers", huh?

Called my cynical...but I think that the chinese can get all the
"volunteers" that they need from their large prisons...

[ASaneGuy]

2. Yes you are too cynical.

This has little to do with politics.

[shanti]

3. no, we're not too cynical

EVERYTHING should be scrutinized!