The World Health Organization launched an initiative on Monday to help accelerate the development of a human bird flu vaccine using mRNA technology.
The World Health OrganizationMonday that it has launched an initiative to help accelerate the development of a human bird flu vaccine using messenger RNA technology.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has previously said the risk of bird flu, also known as avian influenza, to the general public is low and there is currently no evidence of human-to-human transmission. Federal health officials have also prepared millions of vials of an available non-mRNA bird flu vaccine as a precautionary measure, just in case it becomes necessary.
Researchers can often design mRNA vaccines more quickly than they can produce the live or weakened pathogens needed for a traditional vaccine., which has a goal of building capacity in low- and middle-income countries to produce mRNA vaccines. "This initiative exemplifies why WHO established the mRNA Technology Transfer Programme -- to foster greater research, development and production in low- and middle-income countries, so that when the next pandemic arrives, the world will be better prepared to mount a more effective and more equitable response," WHO Director-General Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus said in a statement.
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