DNA-based Vaccine Shows Promise Against Avian Flu
Monday, October 6, 2008 - 11:14
in Health & Medicine
Though it has fallen from the headlines, a global pandemic caused by bird flu still has the United States' Centers for Disease Control and Prevention on high alert. Yet, to date, the only vaccines that have proven even semi-effective are produced in chicken eggs, take five to six months to prepare and act against a single variant of the H5N1 virus, which mutates incredibly quickly.