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Almost one hundred residents of Lithuania have been given an experimental vaccine for fighting bird flu, Radio Vilnius/ELTA informed.

According to Lithuanian scientists, all of the participants of the medical test were volunteers.

Medical professionals, involved in the research in Lithuania said that they cannot yet reveal much information about the results of the experiment.

It was said that the vaccine came from Austria.

The volunteers received two injections of the vaccine and later made notes on the way they felt and symptoms in a special journal. The test is to last for eight months. Even though it started only a few weeks ago, medical professionals claim they have enough volunteers.

The virus, which originated in Asia, reached Europe in this decade. Over three hundred people have already died from it.