Egypt: A reader asks: Is bird flu still a threat to humans, and is there a vaccine protects against infection?

A reader asks: Is bird flu still a threat to humans, and is there a vaccine protects against infection?

Dr Abdel Hady Mesbah professor of immunology that regarding the avian influenza should focus attention on the poultry farms, and not to slaughter, in stores in densely populated areas, and increase awareness of non-breeding birds inside the house - especially in the countryside, and no-nonsense approach in the follow-up to the recommendations of the Higher Committee for Combating Bird Flu, especially by the localities, so far no virus is transmitted only through infected birds to humans, without causing a mutation that enables it to transfer the infection from one person to another.

With regard to attempts to access a vaccine for humans for the prevention of avian influenza, there is research has been published, and by a team of American Scientists were able to have access to the vaccine or Vaksin can prevent both birds and humans as well as cats, the strain of the fierce bird flu virus H5N1, Not only that, but it can be injected by the embryos inside the egg before the bird comes into being.

Has been manufacturing facsimiles or the new vaccine on the grounds that genes essential strain of avian influenza H9N2 in pigs as well, which represent the backbone of the genes in this strain, might protect against infection strain fierce H5N1 after they have been modified genetically to become weak and less able to make disease.

Interestingly, this discovery that this vaccination is good for prevention in both humans and birds and animals that can infect the virus, after it was vaccinations previous vary according to species from human to bird to the animal, and this facsimiles can inject its eggs from infection and disease, and reduce chances of transmission to humans on their way.