A vaccine against the deadly Н5N1 strain of the bird flu has been discovered in the US, media reported Thursday.
The news was broken by Anthony S. Fauci director of the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, who explained that the patent medicine is based on samples taken from a Vietnamese patient that got infected with the bird flu in 2004.
The vaccine is still being tested, but it has been proven that it has no harmful effects and provokes an immune reaction enough to protect the organism from the deadly Н5N1 strain of the bird flu.
Earlier in the week the World Health Organization (WHO) announced that the avian flu virus is mutating and is already transferring to mammals. So far there have only been a few cases of human-to-human transfers of the virus, but they had happened in bird farms.
A total of 132 people have been infected with avian flu worldwide and 60 of them have already passed away.