Predict, Prevent, Contain: Inside U of G’s Fight Against Avian Flu

Posted on Thursday, June 5th, 2025

Dr. Shayan Sharif and six members of his lab pose in lab coats

At the University of Guelph, the fight against avian flu is campus wide. It’s underway in virology and animal health labs, in offices and lecture halls, across training platforms and AI solutions and in test tubes filled with innovative vaccines.

Investment into research, laboratory testing and infrastructure from the Ontario Agri-Food Innovation Alliance helps put U of G researchers everywhere they can be: in labs and on farms, developing new vaccines, analyzing bird samples and using AI to forecast outbreaks.

Their shared mission is to understand, control and, one day, remove avian flu as a public threat.

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