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bird flu

British

noun

Also called: avian flu. a form of influenza occurring in poultry mainly in Japan, China and Southeast Asia, caused by a virus capable of spreading to humans

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H5N1 avian influenza, often called bird flu, was first identified in the United States in 2014.

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The team also addressed a key challenge facing bird flu vaccines.

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"This particular version of bird flu has been around for some time, but the unique and totally unexpected event where it jumped across species into dairy cows in the United States was a clear sign that we should prepare for the event that a pandemic may occur," said Jacco Boon, PhD, a professor in the WashU Medicine John T. Milliken Department of Medicine and co-senior author of the study.

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Although a bird flu vaccine already exists, it was designed using older virus strains, may not work well against current versions of H5N1, and is not widely available.

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As expected, existing seasonal flu vaccines offered little defense against bird flu.

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