Life Science log

Chicken Vaccines Combine to Produce Deadly Virus

Scientists have found that two virus strains used to vaccinate chickens may have recombined to form a virus that is sickening and killing the animals.

Fri 13 Jul 12 from Wired Science

Chicken Vaccines Combine to Produce Deadly Virus, Thu 12 Jul 12 from Science Now

Vaccines team up to generate lethal new chicken virus

Live, attenuated vaccines for a poultry disease in Australia have got together and resurrected the disease they were supposed to prevent

Fri 13 Jul 12 from Newscientist

Chicken vaccines combine to create deadly virus

LETHAL MIX: Australian scientists have found that two different vaccines used to control an infectious disease in chickens can recombine to create new lethal virus strains.

Thu 12 Jul 12 from ABC Science

Chicken vaccines merged to form live viruses and caused outbreaks of irony

Thu 12 Jul 12 from Discover Magazine

Chicken vaccines merged to form live viruses and caused outbreaks of irony, Thu 12 Jul 12 from Discover Magazine

When Vaccines Turn Vicious

Weakened viruses used in vaccines can swap genes and produce disease-causing strains.

Thu 12 Jul 12 from The Scientist

Veterinary vaccines found to combine into new viruses, prompting regulatory response

Research from the University of Melbourne has shown that two different vaccine viruses- used simultaneously to control the same condition in chickens- have combined to produce new infectious ...

Thu 12 Jul 12 from Phys.org

Gene-swapping vaccines spawn lethal poultry virus

Three vaccines used to prevent respiratory disease in chickens have swapped genes, producing two lethal new strains that have killed tens of thousands of fowl

Fri 13 Jul 12 from FOXNews

Viruses used in vaccines can recombine?and get virulent

Outbreaks of new herpesvirus in poultry traced back to merged vaccine strains.

Thu 12 Jul 12 from Ars Technica