The first volunteers have received a dose of the vaccine, made using the same technology as the Covid jab.
UK scientists behind the AstraZeneca Covid jab have given the first trial volunteers a new plague vaccine.
will see at least 40 healthy 18- to 55-year-olds test the vaccine, which uses the same technology as the coronavirus jab.For much of the world plague is a history lesson - the most infamous plague pandemic, the Black Death that swept through Europe in the 1300s, killed as much as half of the population.And in 2017, an outbreak killed 171 people in Madagascar.But many of the regions at risk of outbreaks are very remote.
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