Chicken antibodies may help prevent H5N1 pandemic

Tuesday, April 20, 2010 - 23:11 in Health & Medicine

Scientists have discovered for the first time that antibodies in common eggs laid by hens vaccinated against the H5N1 virus can potentially prevent a possible H5N1 pandemic, raising the possibility that the same principle could be applied to the current H1N1 influenza pandemic.

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