Successful Bird Flu Vaccine WEST LAFAYETTE, IN (wbaa) - A new vaccine which fights the bird flu in mice is partially credited to a Purdue professor.

Molecular Virology Professor Suresh Mittal and scientists at the Centers for Disease Control, added a protein from the bird flu to a common cold virus.

Mittal says this was done without using a bird egg, which has hurt previous attempts at a vaccine.

He says the new vaccine's production is more feasible, and allows it to be stockpiled, to fight a possible pandemic.

Mittal says the resulting vaccine in mice, increased a specific white blood cell which killed the virus.

The research team is in the process of altering the bird flu vaccine for human testing, but he says there is no timeline for studies using people.

The research is published in this month's journal The Lancet . © Copyright 2012, wbaa