Researchers at UTMB’s Sealy Center for Vaccine Development are preparing for the potential worldwide spread of the new avian flu strain H7N9 that caused severe disease in China last spring. According to a release from UTMB, "UTMB’s Sealy Center for Vaccine Development is teaming up with Baylor College of Medicine to join researchers from seven other Vaccine and Treatment Evaluation Units funded by the National Institutes of Health to test vaccines to protect against the illness in adults. Health authorities are preparing for a possible H7N9 bird flu re-emergence during the normal flu season when the weather turns cooler and for further virus mutation that might make it more easily transmittable between people." The announcement also appears in the Galveston County Daily News and the Bay Area Citizen.