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Possible SARS Vaccine Breakthrough source: WebMD | Dec 04, 03 | submitted by Ryan

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania - In what may prove to be an important step toward the development of a protective SARS vaccine, researchers have genetically altered a common cold virus that appears to trigger a SARS-fighting immune response in monkeys.

Six weeks after getting vaccinated to this cold-causing virus -- engineered by scientists at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the CDC to resemble parts of the same coronavirus that causes potentially fatal SARS -- each of the six inoculated rhesus monkeys were found to have immune cells and antibodies against SARS. Meanwhile, two others getting a dummy vaccine did not.

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