National Center for Research confirms the effectiveness of the new Egyptian vaccine against bird flu

[Sally Furniss]

CAIRO - Editor Masrawy - Dr. Mohammed Ahmed, professor of viruses on the National Center for Research that the new vaccine against bird flu, which scientists reached draft status the way to the Nobel, "the Center for Education Excellence," give date of confirmed influenza cases of this immunity against the disease.

And Dr. Mohamed Ali - In a statement to the news agency, the Middle East - that will be contracted in the next two weeks to produce this vaccine is new .. noting that the production cost of this vaccine will be less than the imported ones.

He pointed out that experiments conducted by scientists at the Center has reached the production of a strain of the bird flu virus found in Egypt, which led scientists to the success of the center in preparation for veterinary vaccine against bird flu, adding that he had been using the smooth production of the reverse genetic engineering, one of the technologies developed for the manufacture of vaccines.

He stressed that the research team has tested this strain and to ensure its safety and its ability to induce immune system to produce antibodies to prevent immune poultry from infection by the virus.

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[AlaskaDenise]

Re: National Center for Research confirms the effectiveness of the new Egyptian vaccine against bird flu

Do they plan to use an exact match, or a VAX with a different Neuraminidase, so tests can differentiate between vaccine antibodies and circulating epidemic antibodies? Some commercial markets demand the use of vaccines with different neuraminidase.

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