Vaccine researchers ready as new flu strain evolves
234 views · Published 4 September 2013 · 2:53 · Indexed 10 November 2026
Channel: Vanderbilt University · 2013 · Education
A worrisome new avian influenza virus, called H7N9, emerged this spring in Eastern China. Like the H5N1 avian strain before it, this influenza has a high mortality rate, and hit the radars of pandemic watchers across the globe within weeks of the first outbreak in March. Kathryn Edwards, M.D., Sarah H. Sell and Cornelius Vanderbilt Professor of Pediatrics and director of the Vanderbilt Vaccine Research Program, is among several Vanderbilt experts watching carefully. To learn more about Vanderbilt, visit http://www.vanderbilt.edu.
