by Suzanne Burdick, Ph.D., Childrens Health Defense:
Federally funded researchers have developed an experimental mRNA H5N1 bird flu vaccine that they said is “highly effective” in preventing severe illness and death in infected lab animals.
According to a University of Pennsylvania press release, the vaccine “could potentially help manage the outbreak of the H5N1 virus currently circulating in birds and cattle in the United States, and prevent human infections with the virus.”
The news comes as the U.S. and European nations consider vaccinating workers deemed as at risk for contracting bird flu.