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2009-08-21 | permalink
GE tobacco plants yield the first vaccine for the dreaded ”cruise ship virus”
Scientists have used a new vaccine production technology to develop a vaccine for norovirus, a dreaded cause of diarrhea and vomiting that may be the second most common viral infection in the United States after the flu. Sometimes called the ”cruise ship virus,” this microbe can spread like wildfire through passenger liners, schools, offices and military bases. [...] ”We think we have a major advantage in using engineered plant viruses to scale-up vaccine manufacture within weeks instead of months.”
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2009-08-21 | permalink
GE tobacco plants yield the first vaccine for the dreaded ”cruise ship virus”
Scientists have used a new vaccine production technology to develop a vaccine for norovirus, a dreaded cause of diarrhea and vomiting that may be the second most common viral infection in the United States after the flu. Sometimes called the ”cruise ship virus,” this microbe can spread like wildfire through passenger liners, schools, offices and military bases. [...] ”We think we have a major advantage in using engineered plant viruses to scale-up vaccine manufacture within weeks instead of months.”
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