Month: March 2017

Emerging Viruses of Zoonotic and Veterinary Importance

Meeting announcement:

“Emerging Viruses of Zoonotic and Veterinary Importance”

(EV-ZVI )

24–26 July 2017.     Churchill College, Cambridge UK

This meeting, building on the success of Emerging Viruses 2015 held in Nottingham, will bring together international researchers with an interest in tackling emerging viruses that affect all species, whether human, pet, production or wild. This will allow cross-fertilisation of ideas and common trends to be identified, as well as discussion of methodologies and prospects going forward.

Evaluation of dry powder aerosol influenza vaccine for chickens

“Pulmonary immunization of chickens using non-adjuvanted spray-freeze dried whole inactivated virus vaccine completely protects against highly pathogenic H5N1 avian influenza virus”

Ben Peeters et al. (2014) Vaccine 32: 6445–6450. doi.org/10.1016/j.vaccine.2014.09.048

Freely accessible commentary on the project and wider considerations, including production capacity, available in Poultry World (Dick van Doorn, 6 Mar 2017 “Vaccine atomisation promising for influenza immunisation“)