PHILADELPHIA--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Hemispherx Biopharma, Inc. (AMEX: HEB) announced today that Japan’s Ministry of Health, Labor and Welfare (MHLW) issued authorization to its National Institute of Infectious Diseases (NIID) approving their budget to advance studies indicating that an H5N1 influenza vaccine co-administered intranasally with Hemispherx’s experimental therapeutic double stranded RNA (dsRNA) Ampligen® (Poly I; Poly C12U) protected against mutated strains of the virus and, further that, the seasonal trivalent influenza vaccine co-administered intranasally with Ampligen® maintained efficacy even when challenged with the H5N1 influenza virus.
