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News that an experimental vaccine is successfully protecting mice from the H5N1 bird flu virus shows how much research is being undertaken to find effective protection against this deadly disease.

This research must bring other benefits too. Reading the article, we learn that the vaccine may potentially protect animals from other influenza viruses too.

Of course what happens in mice cannot be directly translated to the efficacy of a vaccine in humans, but it is a start. The scientists are learning more about how the H5N1 interacts with animal cells and how it can therefore might be stopped in its tracks. They are getting closer to reducing the threat of this virulent virus.

But the scientists are doing more than that.

By learning more about H5N1, they are also learning more about influenza viruses in general. Better vaccines for other forms of influenza will almost certainly be created from this rush to stop H5N1 and that is good news.