Vectored Vaccines for Avian Influenza
By David Swayne, USDA's Agricultural Research Service, Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory - Cases of avian influenza infections of poultry and humans have caused the world to be on alert for a pandemic. ARS veterinary medical officer and laboratory director David Swayne and his team at the Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory in Athens, Georgia, are developing new viral-vectored vaccines to facilitate vaccine efficiency against avian influenza.