Pandemic flu occurs when a flu virus spreads rapidly on a global scale, leading to a high number of illnesses and deaths, and having a major impact on everyday life and the economy.

Unlike the seasonal flu, pandemic flu occurs when a new strain of the flu virus is transmitted from animals to humans. Because people have little or no immunity to that particular strain, it spreads rapidly, sometimes in waves, infecting large numbers of people.

Because a pandemic flu is new, a vaccine is typically unavailable in the early stages of an outbreak, and medication to treat it might also be limited. The high number of illnesses associated with pandemic flu can also lead to overloaded medical systems, high numbers of workplace absences, and travel bans.

The most severe case of pandemic flu in recent history was in 1918 and was responsible for an estimated 50 million deaths worldwide and more than 675,000 in the United States, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Approximately 1 million to 2 million people around the world died in a 1958 pandemic, and 700,000 died from one in 1968.

Although rare, the World Health Organization has warned of a substantial risk of a flu pandemic within the next few years.

Coastal Carolina Research Center has conducted hundreds of clinical trials over the past 10 years, including several pertaining to pandemic flu. We currently have a pandemic bird flu vaccine clinical trial, listed here. Our pandemic flu vaccine study participants free study-related medical care and are paid monetary compensation.

If you are interested in being considered for our current pandemic bird flu vaccine study, select the study and click the Apply Here link.

To be considered for another type of study in the future please click here to submit your interest, and the next clinical study we obtain that you are eligible to participate in, we will contact you.