First vaccine against avian flu is approved as interim measure. The first vaccine against avian flu won government approval yesterday, even as federal officials conceded its usefulness in a flu pandemic might be limited. [News Source]

First Vaccine Against H5N1 Avian Flu Approved In The US (Medical News Today) The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) announced yesterday the first approval in the US of a vaccine against H5N1 avian influenza for use with humans.Commonly known as bird flu, the current deadly strain of the H5N1 avian virus is not spreading from human to human but only from birds to humans, as well as among birds themselves. [click link for full article] [News Source]

FDA Licenses First U.S. Vaccine For Humans Against Avian Influenza (Medical News Today) Sanofi pasteur, the vaccines division of the sanofi-aventis Group, announced today that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has licensed its H5N1 vaccine, the first avian influenza vaccine for humans in the U.S. Sanofi pasteur, in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health, submitted a Biologics License Application to the FDA for this H5N1 vaccine. [click link for full article] [News Source]

FDA approves bird flu vaccine (The Washington Times) The Food and Drug Administration yesterday announced approval of the first vaccine to protect against the avian flu virus, commonly known as bird flu. [News Source]