Trump administration draws funding for bird flu vaccine

The US health and human services department has drawn $ 600 million in funding that it previously promised to the pharmaceutical company Moderna to develop a vaccine for bird flu in humans, with reference to concern for MRNA technology.

The funding had been allocated under President Joe Biden in the middle of the rapid spread of H1N1 – usually called Bird flu. More than 173 million birds have been canceled, according to US Centers for Disease Control. Nearly 1,000 livestock has been infected.

According to the latest data, there have been 70 human infections and a death. Researchers have warned that the virus could mutate further and have a more dangerous and widespread impact on human health.

Modern contract was built on a previous state investment of $ 175 million last year, according to New York Times.

“This is not just about efficiency – it’s about security, integrity and trust,” said HH’s spokesman Andrew Nixon in a statement, according to Washington Post. “The reality is that MRNA technology remains Undestad, and we will not spend the taxpayers’ dollars to repeat mistakes from the last administration, which hides legitimate security problems from the public.”

A representative of Moderna tells people in a statement: “While the closing of funding from HHS adds uncertainty, Moderna will explore alternatives for the development and manufacture of the H5 program at the end of the stage with the company’s strategic commitment to pandemic preparedness.

“Researchers have investigated MRNA’s potential in medicine for over 30 years, leading to a rapid deployment of MRNA-based Covid-19 vaccines that transformed pandemic. Respiratory SyncyTial virus (RSV) – Are well established. ”

Messenger RNA or MRNA technology made headlines when used for Modern and Pfizervaccines against the virus causing Covid 19 During the pandemic. According to National Library of MedicineMRNA technology was “decades in development as a therapy for cancer and to prevent infectious diseases.”

While traditional vaccines introduce a weakened or dead virus into your immune system, which then urges your immune system to produce antibodies to fight the virus, MRNA teaches your body to make a “small part” of the virus, generally a protein, it Cleveland Clinic explains.

Your body fights against that protein and thus has the tools to recognize it and kill it in the case you are infected by the actual virus.

Results from the Mother’s bird flu vaccine research were positive and generated “a fast, potent and sustainable immune response”, the company said in a statement.

Earlier this week, HHS head Robert F. Kennedy Jr.., a long time Vaccine criticsannounced that they rolled back Covid vaccine recommendations For pregnant women and children in the midst of health experts who quote research showing pregnant women who became ill with Covid met worse results.

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