Submitted by Esc_ape_artist t3_11asu19 in askscience
Intern11 t1_j9vb4jp wrote
Reply to comment by [deleted] in Does the common flu vaccine offer any buffer against H5N1 (Bird Flu)? by Esc_ape_artist
That vaccine will only protect you from the current variant of the bird flu which only passes from birds to animals. If the virus mutates and transforms into one that can pass from person to person we would need to engineer a whole new vaccine which wouldn’t be worked on until we found the dominant strain of the new pandemic.
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