Italy has plans to launch a larger-scale human test of its AIDS vaccine in Africa, in the hope of having it ready for the market by 2011.

Barbara Ensoli of Italy's National Health Institute began an initial, small-scale trial involving 47 volunteers at four different clinics in Italy in 2003 and is aiming for results in 2006

Italy has plans to launch a larger-scale human test of its AIDS vaccine in Africa, in the hope of having it ready for the market by 2011.

Barbara Ensoli of Italy's National Health Institute began an initial, small-scale trial involving 47 volunteers at four different clinics in Italy in 2003, and was aiming for results in 2006

The World Health Organization is sounding the alarm over H5N1 bird flu becoming human pandemic. Analysts are calling for immediate mass vaccinations of poultry.

The virus is already responsible for killing 54 people in Asia and appears to spread only by close interaction of humans with sick birds or infected poultry

The Xinhua News Agency in China reports an unauthorized Hepatitis A vaccine has killed one child and sickened more than 200.

Officials say village doctors in an eastern province gave the Hepatitis A vaccine to about 2,500 children two weeks ago without permission. A 6-year-old girl reportedly suffered an infection and breathing problems and died a few days later. Other children suffered dizziness, headaches and breathing trouble

A report from the Trust for America's Health non-profit group predicted Friday that half a million Americans could die and more than 2 millions could end up in the hospital with serious complications if an even moderately severe strain of a pandemic flu hits.

The group warns the United States only has 965,256 staffed hospital beds, an insufficient amount in the event a pandemic does hit