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Center for Vaccine Development Seeks Volunteers

The Saint Louis University Center for Vaccine Development is seeking volunteers 18 to 45 years old for an experimental yellow fever vaccine.

Purpose of study:
Yellow fever virus is spread to people by mosquitoes. There are about 200,000 cases and 30,000 deaths from yellow fever in Africa and South America each year. Yellow fever does not occur in the United States at this time, though it has in past centuries.

Currently licensed yellow fever vaccines are based on the live, weakened yellow fever virus. Yellow fever vaccines must be used with caution in people 60 years of age and older, and is not recommended for infants less than 9 months of age, or in people with weakened immune systems. A safer yellow fever vaccine is needed.

This study will test the safety and immune response produced by an experimental yellow fever vaccine.

About the study:

For more information about this study, contact the Center for Vaccine Development by phone at 314-977-6333 or 1-866-410-6333 (toll free), or by email at vaccine@slu.edu, and refer to Study 315 IRB #26895.