[h=1]Researchers use chicken's immune system as weapon against avian flu[/h] [h=2]Veterinary medicine studies aim to protect poultry against future outbreaks in Canada[/h] By Jennifer Allford
Faizal Careem is assistant professor in virology in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine. Photo by Riley Brandt, University of Calgary
As poultry farms in B.C. recover from the latest outbreak of avian flu in Canada, researchers in the Faculty of Veterinary Medicine are studying how to stimulate the innate immune system of chickens to fight the spread of different viruses, including avian flu.
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Injecting eggs to protect bird's immune system
?We are injecting the eggs to empower the bird?s innate immune system so that when they hatch and go out to the poultry barn environment they will be protected from whatever pathogens are around in the barn,? says Careem....
