Scientists are given one year to develop new ways of preventing future spillover to humans
Scientists from eight leading UK laboratories are joining forces to develop new ways to fight bird flu.
The new UK consortium will examine what measures are needed "to prevent future spill-overs of influenza with pandemic potential into humans." The £1.5m is allocated over one year. Globally, vaccines against bird flu in people are being developed in case a more aggressive strain jumps from poultry into the human population.But the government's top animal virologist, Professor Ian Brown, Head of Virology at the Animal and Plant Health Agency , which leads the consortium, told BBC News: "There are vaccine candidates prepared against all these emerging strains in poultry should one of them make that successful jump to humans.
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