STAT July 29, 2024
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A network of nascent vaccine manufacturers in low- and middle-income countries will soon start preliminary work to develop messenger RNA vaccines targeting the H5N1 bird flu virus, an effort that could speed production during a pandemic, should this virus trigger one.
The World Health Organization announced Monday that Argentina’s Sinergium Biotech will begin doing pre-clinical testing of candidate vaccine viruses for H5N1 using mRNA technology. The company, which is doing the work at the behest of the Argentinian...