USDA Awards $5 million for Avian Influenza Research

The USDA's Cooperative State Research, Education, and Extension Service (CSREES) originally awarded the AICAP in 2005 to the University of Maryland to establish a research and education project to help prevent and control avian influenza (bird flu). The project was composed of a multidisciplinary team of researchers and Extension specialists representing 17 states. AICAP goals include epidemiology, basic research, diagnostics, vaccines and education.

Since 2005, AICAP researchers and educators have:

developed promising vaccines for mass immunization of birds.

The institutions and researchers participating in AICAP are Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University, Auburn University, University of California-Davis, University of Delaware, University of Georgia, USDA-Agricultural Research Service-Southeast Poultry Research Laboratory, Ohio State University, Oregon State University, Texas A&M University, Western University Health Sciences and University of Maryland-College Park.

 

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