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Canada lab to use monkeys for SARS research.

Vaccine Weekly

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2003 DEC 3 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Eight monkeys at a Winnipeg lab will be infected with the SARS virus as part of a national effort to develop a vaccine for the deadly respiratory disease.

The National Microbiology Lab will try to decide whether monkeys are a good animal model for research for a vaccine because testing potential vaccines requires finding an animal species that gets the same kind of lung infections as humans, scientific director Frank Plummer said.

Researchers in Winnipeg, Vancouver and Hamilton have developed potential vaccines for severe acute respiratory syndrome, but they have to be tested.

A national coalition working toward a vaccine called on the Winnipeg ...

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