New bird flu vaccine easier to apply to poultry – CNN.com
May 23, 2006 by admin
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
CNN.com is reporting on a chicken vaccine that may help prevent transmission of H5N1 bird flu at the source.
A bird flu vaccine piggybacked onto a widely used vaccine against another bird virus could be a quick and easy way to protect poultry against the H5N1 avian influenza virus, researchers said on Monday.
Two separate teams of researchers came up with a combination that is easy to make, protects chickens well and could be sprayed onto flocks.
Plus the vaccines are formulated in a way that answers the concerns that a bird flu vaccine could actually mask an outbreak, or could make trade in poultry products from vaccinated flocks more difficult, the researchers wrote in reports published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Read the full story from CNN.com
