UK ‘Developing Bird Flu Vaccine’
A UK laboratory is one of just three in the world working to develop a vaccine which would combat the spread of bird flu.
Researchers at the National Institute for Biological Standards and Control are using genetic technology to create the vaccine.
Researchers are “building” the vaccine by combining avian and human flu genes. The genes from the bird flu virus are altered to make them safe.
Genetic material is then taken from a human flu virus. The resulting man-made combined virus should then provide the basis for a vaccine.
Researchers hope to reach this stage in around two months’ time.
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