And if avian flu develops into a pandemic human strain - as many experts fear it may - the vaccine might complement traditional vaccines and be used to protect people.
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Bird flu is something we should be prepared for, but even if a pandemic never happens, everything we learn now from this vaccine can be applied to vaccines for other emerging infectious diseases.Andrea Gambotto
In humans, the H5N1 bird flu takes about two weeks to kill, so there is time for T cells to come out and give protection.
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We hope this will happen soon, because it's not nice to wait. It's a little frustrating that nobody wants to spend the money, that nobody wants this to become real.
Andrea Gambotto
Eventually we will need to partner with a company for large-scale production of vaccine.
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It takes a little over a month for us to develop a recombinant vector vaccine compared to a minimum of several months via traditional methods. This capacity will be particularly invaluable if the virus begins to mutate rapidly, a phenomenon that often limits the ability of traditional vaccines to contain outbreaks of mutant strains.
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