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Queensland vaccine trials abandoned over ‘false positives to HIV’
Friday December 11, 2020
The federal government has reportedly canned a deal to buy tens of millions of doses of a potential coronavirus vaccine being developed in Australia.
University of Queensland researchers work on a potential COVID-19 vaccine. (Source: UQ)
The decision was made after the University of Queensland and biotechnology company CSL abandoned trials of their COVID-19 vaccine candidate.
The trials were abandoned after some participants returned false positive results for another illness – HIV – Nine newspapers reported on Friday.
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