There has been a vaccine to prevent bird flu

The fight against bird flu has entered a new stage. An independent team of experts has recommended the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to use a vaccine to prevent bird flu in humans. This vaccine is developed by the French pharmaceutical company Sanofi-Aventis.

If the FDA follows this recommendation, this will be the first vaccine officially approved for circulation to prevent a possible pandemic due to the H5N1 virus.

The team of 14 people voted with 13 votes and 1 vote to declare the vaccine effective and not dangerous.

The records published by the FDA said the vaccine created an immune response in 45% of adults who were injected with two doses in clinical trials.

The US government plans to buy and store this vaccine to vaccinate 20 million US residents.

The H5N1 virus is currently difficult to spread directly from animals to humans. However, experts fear that after a series of genetic mutations or in combination with a human influenza virus, it will be easily transmitted from person to person. This can cause a pandemic that kills millions of people around the world.