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It gives early hope for the vaccine, which is now going through human scientific trials.
The trial took place in the US, including scientists from the United States federal government’s National Institutes of Health (NIH) and from the University of Oxford.
The vaccine appeared to protect the animals against establishing pneumonia.
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Rhesus macaques have comparable immune systems to h