Two vaccines are ready for mass production and global distribution if the bird flu virus jumps to humans, according to Demetre Daskalakis, the Director of the National Center for Immunization and Respiratory Diseases.
Daskalakis, who is also the White House monkeypox response coordinator, said during a briefing that two new mRNA vaccines are ready for deployment against bird flu and studies “suggest that the vaccines will offer good cross-protection against cattle outbreak viruses”.
Health officials also said during the briefing that the Biden administration is prepared for the possibility of human-to-human transmission of the bird flu.
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Yahoo report: The Department of Health and Human Services assistant secretary for preparedness, Dawn O’Connell, told NBC News that there are hundreds of thousands of prefilled vaccine syringes ready to ship in the event of a transmission event.
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“We’ve been investing in a library of antigens to move out as quickly as possible should we begin to see a highly transmissible flu strain circulate,” she said.
The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is currently monitoring more than 100 people — primarily individuals who work with farm animals — for signs of possible infection.
Ms O’Connell said that if the vaccines are needed, individuals would likely need to take two doses for adequate protection.
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The number of doses that would ship in such a scenario will be determined by the severity of a hypothetical outbreak, officials said.
Both vaccines, including a third MRNA vaccine that is in development, would need approval from the US Food and Drug Administration before they could be distributed.
