Check out the story by the UW Medicine Newsroom here.
Vaccine Makers Are Preparing for Bird Flu
Although most experts say bird flu is not an immediate threat to humans, efforts are underway to produce vaccines for H5N1 or another potential pandemic virus.
“RNA vaccines can be designed extremely quickly—you only need the genetic sequence of what the new variant is that’s emerging, and within weeks, [you] can have a vaccine already tested in animal models,” Fuller says.
Read more in the Scientific American
Making a Universal Flu Vaccine
How do you make a universal flu vaccine? A microbiologist explains the challenges, and how mRNA could offer a promising solution
Read Dr. Fuller’s piece in The Conversation.