美國國家過敏與感染疾病研究所（NIAID）獲得每年2,300萬美元的補助款，在未來7年內建立6處流感研究監督卓越中心，研究人員將同時針對禽流感和人類流感進行研究。
研究人員將探究人類時常接觸到的動物感染禽流感的程度，了解流感病毒如何形成、適應和傳染，以及針對影響流感病毒是否僅會引發輕微不適或導致死亡的免疫功能因素，做進一步的確認。
部分卓越中心則是監控國內外所出現的動物或人類流感案例，進而快速找出可能引發流感的潛在病毒及其病理特徵，並針對這些病毒研發候選疫苗。
國家過敏與感染疾病研究所所長佛斯博士表示：「流感的威脅是公共社區健康擔憂的源頭，新設立的流感研究監督卓越中心將有助於聯邦政府，提升其在國內外流感監督的成果，增加人類對流感病毒的認識，以及創造必要的資訊和工具，讓人類在面對流感時，能有更充分的準備和應變能力。」
The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIAID, is awarding $23 million a year for seven years to establish six Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance. Researchers will investigate both avian and human influenza.
Researchers will determine the prevalence of avian influenza in animals that routinely come into close contact with people; learn how flu viruses evolve, adapt and transmit infection; and identify immunological factors that can determine whether a flu virus causes only mild illness or death.
Some centers will monitor for international and domestic cases of animal and human influenza to rapidly detect and characterize viruses that may have pandemic potential and to create vaccine candidates targeted to those viruses.
"The threat of an influenza pandemic is a major source of concern for the public health community," says NIAID Director Anthony Fauci, MD. "The new NIAID Centers of Excellence for Influenza Research and Surveillance will help expand the federal government’s existing international and domestic influenza surveillance efforts, further our understanding of influenza viruses, and generate the information and tools necessary to better prepare and respond to a pandemic situation."
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