BANGKOK -- A team of Thai researchers is developing a new universal vaccine to prevent the cross strain of H5N1 virus, also known as bird flu.

"This new vaccine would be a key medicine to prevent the infection in human from the outbreak which would come from the cross strain virus," says a researcher Kanyarat Teunginn.

This research is collaboration project between Mahidol University's Siriraj Hospital, Thammasat University's Faculty of Allied Health Science, Kasetsart University and Thailand Research Fund.