116 3rd St SE
Cedar Rapids, Iowa 52401
Iowa H1N1 vaccine study to begin next week
University of Iowa researchers will begin testing an H1N1 flu vaccine next week.
The UI is one of eight sites nationwide chosen by the National Institutes of Health to study a vaccine for the virus, previously called swine flu. Nationwide, more than 3,000 volunteers will be tested, ages 6 months and older.
Volunteers getting shots next week at the UI are adults.
Tests are being expedited in a race against a possible resurgence of H1N1 flu, which could happen at the same time seasonal flu strikes this fall.
Because the vaccine is an inactivated virus, participants cannot contract H1N1 from the shots.
Daily Newsletters