Sunday, February 15, 2009

Egypt: A New Vaccine Against Bird Flu

2-15-2009
In a November edition of "Journal of General Verolojy" Dissemination of research by a team of U.S. scientists access to a News of the vaccine can be assessed Ouvaksin both birds and humans, as well as the fierce cats of the strain of the avian influenza virus H5N1, is not only that, but it can be will infuse the bird embryos inside the egg before they emerge, Vtqy the next strain of chickens from infection with the virus.

The cats infected with the bird flu virus strain H5N1, after fierce resistance to the many other strains of influenza is a great challenge to health, where the cats in the near future be an important element in the transmission through the garbage bins and stray cats as well as birds and pigs , hence the importance of this discovery lies in the face of the spread of the infection in the event of a pandemic.

The manufacture of facsimiles, or the new vaccine on the basis of the discovery that genes essential H9N2 strain, which affects pigs - which are the backbone of the genes in this strain - that can prevent infection after the H5N1 strain of the fierce to be genetically modified to become weak and less able to cause disease , has already been injected mice, and after three weeks, these rats were injected strain of avian influenza type H1N1, the same strain that caused a pandemic in the years 1918, 1919, which called the flu, "Spanish" and claimed more than forty million people worldwide, and the result, the mice did not suffer any symptoms of infection with the strain of the fierce, and then injected H5N1 strain currently deployed did not become infected.

And in this discovery is that this vaccine works to prevent in both humans and birds and animals can get the virus, after the previous vaccination vary according to species of bird to human to animal, and the facsimiles can inject the eggs and this was not available because facsimiles prohibited former white farms, thereby reducing the chances of transmission to humans through these chicks breeds of birds.

And despite the fact that a human flu symptoms affect people in more than three thousand years, but the virus itself has not been isolated or detected only in the thirties of last century, has been the discovery of strains of influenza that affects birds in more than a hundred years in Italy, but These strains have been affecting birds and pigs only, and can not infect human, and started the first human infection of bird flu virus in 1997 in Hong Kong after a genetic breakthrough made it possible for the virus transmission from birds to humans.

On the other hand, the EU has approved a vaccine produced by the company Ouvaksin "GlaxoSmithKline" GSK world, which can be used in the prevention of the spread of an avian flu pandemic among humans for use in 27 countries were represented in the Union, the United States, Switzerland and Finland had approved the use of the facsimiles, which will be called: Pripngs Prepandrix and has already begun to store quantities of it, the price was about two hundred million dollars in anticipation of a pandemic, and an anticipated surge of vicious strain of avian influenza H5N1, which will enable the transmission of HIV from one person to Akrmbacrp and the creation of a global epidemic of expected to reap millions in the absence of a vaccine could prevent infection from infected.

It is the first time in the history of the vaccine industry and the history of epidemics, which manufactures the vaccine before or facsimiles of an epidemic or pandemic, because the method of manufacture of these vaccines was based on a genetic mutation that the virus causing the epidemic of the first, and then manufacture the vaccine through identification of the infectious molecule, which stimulates the immune system to produce human antibodies to gain immunity against infections,

In the case of this vaccine has been manufactured through advanced technology produces antibodies give a percentage of protection of up to 70 to 80% even if the boom there and change the genetic composition, and experts say the manufacturer of the vaccine production that has lasted 4 years and cost approximately 2 billion dollars, and taken by injection, which should take the human form of syringes, separated by a 3 weeks.

And return to repeat the caution that there is a real fear of the presence of farms with more than 300 thousand pigs in residential areas of different provinces of Egypt, including what is on the outskirts of the capital, such as the axis, leading to the October 6 and the other, which constitutes a great danger of the possibility of a mutation of the virus within the expected These pigs, speaking to a pandemic or epidemic expected,

It is well known that the pig is the parent facilitator, who spoke inside most of the influenza virus mutations, as it becomes infected with both avian and human influenza, especially pig farms that are not taken into account in the foundations of health education and environmental sanitation, which threatens the spread of the disease on a widespread and dangerous, So far, not been any action on these farms from the government.

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