Medical Xpress July 29, 2024
The World Health Organization announced Monday a new project to accelerate the development in poorer countries of vaccines for human bird flu infections using cutting-edge messenger RNA technology.
The WHO said Argentinian manufacturer Sinergium Biotech would lead the effort and had already begun developing candidate H5N1 vaccines.
The bird flu H5N1 first emerged in 1996, but since 2020 an exponential growth in outbreaks in birds has occurred in parallel with the virus increasingly jumping to mammals, including cattle in US farms and a few humans.
This has prompted fears the virus could spark a future pandemic.
Sinergium is aiming to establish proof-of-concept in preclinical models for its candidate vaccines, the WHO said.
Once the preclinical data is ready, the technology,...
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