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. |
Bird flu may likely become the next pandemic, and this vaccine is worth investigating further. |
Eventually we will need to partner with a company for large-scale production of vaccine. |
Some people would say you were crazy if you were to say you were making a vaccine as a way to make money for the university. It could happen. |
That means there is a lot of chance of getting cross-reactivity. |
The results of this animal trial are very promising, not only because our vaccine completely protected animals that otherwise would have died, but also because we found that one form of the vaccine stimulates several lines of immunity against H5N1. |
This is a very potent vaccine. It took roughly about 30 days to make the vaccine from when we received the sequence information from CDC in Atlanta. |
This is a very potent vaccine. The results of this animal trial are very promising. |
Using this technology we can have much broader protection, which is important because the virus is always changing. |
We generated the portion that we think was important for immunity. We never manipulated the actual H5N1 virus ourselves, so it is safe to generate this kind of vaccine. |
We have the technique to go from an email to a virus. |
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. |