Researchers develop nasal spray H5N1 avian influenza vaccine

Researchers develop nasal spray H5N1 avian influenza vaccine

The State Key Laboratory for Emerging Infectious Diseases at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) and the InnoHK Center for Virology, Vaccinology and Therapeutics (CVVT) have pioneered an influenza virus vector-based nasal spray vaccine platform and developed a nasal spray H5N1 avian influenza vaccine. The study is published in Nature Communications.

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