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In Australia, clinical trials of a vaccine developed jointly by the University of Queensland and the biotech company CSL have been abandoned because multiple participants tested for HIV showed false results after vaccination, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison said on Friday. said the MTI.
The head of government said that following the suggestion of scientists, they will not continue development. The local vaccine was one of four vaccines in development for which the Australian government placed an order.
According to the agreement, 51 million doses of the vaccine would have been delivered.
Scott Morrison also said the government had increased orders for other vaccines in development – from 33.8 million to 53.8 million for AstraZeneca and from 40 million to 51 million for Novavax.
The CSL emphasized that none of the participants in the clinical trials became infected with HIV as a result of the vaccination, the vaccine simply interrupted the trial.
I would like to emphasize here that there are no adverse health reactions and there is no way the vaccine will cause HIV infection.
Said Andrew Nash, CSL’s chief scientific expert.
The expert also said that it was incorporated into the vaccine.
a fragment of one of the proteins of the HIV virus, presumably this may have caused the confusion.
“Although university researchers have found that the protein fragment does not pose any health risk to those who have been vaccinated, at the same time a partial antibody response has been identified in the test participants,” said Health Minister Greg Hunt.
He explained that the protein fragment could affect certain HIV tests, which look for only these antibodies, and therefore produce false results. As he said, this risk was known from the beginning of development and the test subjects were also informed about it.
Another expert talked about how the problem could be solved, but not soon, and now the antibody is needed.
In Australia, with a population of 25 million, some 28,000 people have been identified so far, of whom 908 have died from the disease.
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