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Message: <blockquote data-quote="imhotep" data-source="post: 29849874" data-attributes="member: 562115">We already haave antivirals like Tamiflu & Relenza for treatment. Also there's a recently developed nucleoside-modified mRNA vaccine against clade 2.3.4.4b H5 highly pathogenic avian influenza virus. Still under trial stage but supposedly effective on animal trials.Earlier with H1N1 there was a problem of developing these vaccines in time. Vaccines were made by using fertilized chicken eggs with flu strains they expect will be the most dominant and virulent and let it replicate. They then inactivate the virus to use in flu shots. This process takes up to six months for viruses to be adapted to replicate in fertilized eggs, delaying production past the critical first few months of a pandemic.Now with the advent of mRNA technology it's simple and quick to design a vaccine against that particular strain.</blockquote>

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