Since H5N1 has been infecting increasingly more people, as is becoming more and more easily transmitted from birds to humans, there is pressure to create a vaccine.
One promising vaccine, which is live, has been shown in monkeys to induce an effective systemic and local antibody response. The vaccine itself is avian Newcastle disease virus, which expresses a common gene found in H5N1. Hopefully, the antibodies to this vaccine will confer resistance to H5N1.
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