Monique
Dec5-03, 12:51 PM
http://www.nature.com/nsu/031201/031201-8.html
Researchers are warning though to take caution with developing this vaccine, due to a phenomenon called antibody-mediated enhancement, which would worsen the chance of infection if the virus normally targets immune cells.
But SARS vaccines, like those against some related animal coronaviruses, could actually worsen the infection. "It's important that we don't rush in," says Gary Nabel, who heads the vaccine-research centre at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.
Researchers are warning though to take caution with developing this vaccine, due to a phenomenon called antibody-mediated enhancement, which would worsen the chance of infection if the virus normally targets immune cells.
But SARS vaccines, like those against some related animal coronaviruses, could actually worsen the infection. "It's important that we don't rush in," says Gary Nabel, who heads the vaccine-research centre at the National Institutes of Health in Bethesda, Maryland.