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France’s Pasteur Institute abandons COVID vaccine project – Anadolu Agency
Decision announced after Phase I trials in humans found to be less effective against virus – Anadolu Agency
PARIS
France’s Pasteur Institute announced Monday that it was midway abandoning its project of developing a COVID-19 vaccine following ineffective results.
The private, non-profit institute named after its celebrated founder, Louis Pasteur, who invented the world’s first vaccine in the 1880s, in a statement said it was halting development of the vaccine based on a measles vaccine following interim results from a Phase I clinical trial in humans.
“The vaccine candidate was well tolerated,” it…
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