WRAP Australia begins world's 1st human trials of vaccine; ADDS UK, EU on situation

(22 Jul 2009) AuBC - No Access Australia Adelaide, Australia 1. Tilt down of Royal Adelaide Hospital to entrance 2. Wide of Royal Adelaide Hospital sign 3. Close up Flu Clinic sign 4. Various close ups of vaccine boxes and bottles 5. Various of volunteer being injected with vaccine 6. SOUNDBITE: (English) Andrew Cuthbertson, Commonwealth Serum Laboratories' (CSL) Director of Research and Development: "We have a specific vaccine that we believe will be able to protect millions of people against this new H1N1 flu. But what we have to do before this is made generally available is do some appropriate testing." 7. Wide of volunteer being injected with vaccine AP TELEVISION Brussels, Belgium 8. Wide shot exterior of EU Commission building 9. Flags outside EC building 10. European Union Health Commissioner Androulla Vassiliou entering press conference 11. SOUNDBITE (English) Androulla Vassiliou, EU Health Commissioner: "We cannot have a time limit. It's up to MEA to make sure that the clinical trials have been put in place and we have a safe vaccine. Because we don't want to put the vaccine in the market, running the risk of creating more problems than non-vaccination. So, we prefer to wait and have an authorised vaccine, which will be safe for our people." 12. Cutaway of assembled media 13. SOUNDBITE (English) Androulla Vassiliou, EU Health Commissioner: "When the vaccine is finally in the market, authorised, of course in the beginning, we shall not have sufficient number doses of vaccine to vaccinate all our people. That is why it is necessary for us to decide in advance which are the priority groups, the most vulnerable groups of the people that should be given priority and be vaccinated. And then, of course, when the vaccine is produced in bigger quantities, then all our people may be vaccinated. But in the beginning, we have to give priority to the risk groups." POOL London, UK 14. British Prime Minister Gordon Brown entering news briefing 15. SOUNDBITE (English): Gordon Brown, British Prime Minister: "And I want the public to be reassured that we have been preparing for the possibility of a pandemic for a number of years. We started preparation with the detailed work on the possibilities of pandemic flu. Robust plans are in plans. The NHS (National Health Service) is continuing to cope well, thanks to the sterling efforts of it's staff. But as swine flu cases have started to increase, we need to be able to give antivirals to greater numbers of people, quickly. So from the end of this week, the National Pandemic flu service in England will be up and running. It will quickly diagnose people who have swine flu and it will give them the opportunity to get antivirals direct from local centres. And this, of course, will free up GPs (General Practitioners) and NHS time." SKY London, UK 16. Exterior of No 10 Downing Street STORYLINE The world's first human trials of a swine flu vaccine have begun in Australia, drug officials said on Wednesday. Two biotechnology companies have started injecting adult volunteers in the southern city of Adelaide with their vaccines, as Australia confirmed 14,703 cases of swine flu and 41 related deaths as of Wednesday. Vaxine began trials on Monday with 300 subjects and biotechnology company Commonwealth Serum Laboratories (CSL) began the trials on Wednesday, where 240 volunteers will be injected with the vaccine. CSL's director of research and development, Andrew Cuthbertson, said the company was confident the vaccine would protect people from the H1N1 flu virus. Medical experts warned against rushing the vaccines through trials. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...