University of Melbourne
Human vaccine against bird flu a reality with new discovery
Published in Vaccine Weekly, March 18th, 2009
The discovery, published in the prestigious Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, reveals how boosting T cell immunity could better protect humans from a bird flu pandemic.
The continued spread of the highly virulent "bird flu" virus has experts worried that we are facing a new potential influenza pandemic which could transfer between humans. Furthermore, given the bird flu is new, there is no pre-existing immunity in the population and current vaccine formulations would be useless.
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Source: Vaccine Weekly (2009-03-18)
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