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Objavljeno Aug 05, 2025
In a move that has reignited fears of lab-engineered pandemics, Japanese scientists have created a never-before-seen strain of bird flu by merging two wild viruses.
They detailed their experiment in a study published July 23 in NPJ Vaccines. The study authors detailed how they assembled a synthetic pathogen dubbed Vac-3 from genetic material taken from H5N3 and H6N1 influenza strains found in ducks.
The virus, which was grown in eggs and chemically inactivated, was then tested on primates as part of a vaccine experiment. Researchers later exposed the vaccinated macaques to a lethal H5N1 strain originally isolated from a human fatality.
#Japan
#H5N1
#Pandemic
#Vaccines
#BirdFlu
#Viruses
#H5N3
#H6N1
#Macaques
#Ducks
Aug 05, 2025