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With adult trials already underway without serious incident, researchers began giving H1N1 swine flu vaccine to children on Wednesday to test the safety and effectiveness for the upcoming flu season.Trials began among children at what will ultimately encompass five universities in the United States, allowing researchers to determine effective and safe dosing of the vaccine, designed to prevent a strain of influenza that has already claimed more than 1,000 lives worldwide."There was a lot of thought and consideration about the safest but most expeditious way to proceed, and we have completed enrollment," said Dr. Karen Kotloff, Lead investigator of H1N1 studies conducted at the University of Maryland School of Medicine, which is leading the trials. "This is a vaccine that is made in exactly the same way as the standard, licensed flu vaccine."
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