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Enrolling by invitationNCT07215871Updated Oct 15, 2026

Rechallenge With a Low Pathogenicity Avian H10N7 Influenza Virus in Healthy Human Volunteers Previously Challenged With H10N7 Influenza

A Phase 1 interventional study of A/Mallard/Ohio-99/MM4/1989 H10N7 in Influenza Infection, Infections and Respiratory Virus Infections, sponsored by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID). Enrolling by invitation at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years to 55 Years, including healthy volunteers. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-10-15.

Primary conditionInfluenza, HumanRegistry: InfectionsReclassifiedWhy we changed it
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Infections — the first condition term the registry derived for this study.
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  1. The study's listed conditions name Influenza, Human, a narrower term within Infections.
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Sponsored by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) · Phase 1, Interventional, and Basic science

Updated Oct 15, 2026Primary completion movedGo to Updates ↓
Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
33
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years to 55 Years
Sex
All
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Study summary

Background:

Influenza (flu) is a virus that can infect humans and animals. In humans, the flu can cause mild symptoms such as fever, cough, sore throat, runny nose, muscle aches, headaches, and fatigue. It can also cause sinus infections or pneumonia. Some flu strains, such as H5N1 and H7N9, which come from birds, can lead to more severe symptoms or death. Others, like H10N7, also come from birds but usually cause mild symptoms. Researchers want to study bird flu in humans to help develop new flu vaccines and treatments.

Objective:

To learn more about how bird flu viruses infect humans.

Eligibility:

Healthy people aged 18 to 55 years who were infected with the H10N7 bird flu strain as part of a previous study.

Design:

Participants who were infected with H10N7 in a previous study will be infected again with the same virus. The virus will be sprayed into their nostrils.

Participants will stay in the hospital for at least 9 days. They will stay in an isolation unit. No outside visitors will be allowed.

During their stay, participants will provide blood, urine, and nasal fluid samples. They will have tests of their heart and lung function. They will complete questionnaires about their symptoms.

Participants will remain in the hospital until they test negative for the flu 2 days in a row. They will continue to complete questionnaires about their symptoms for 2 weeks after they were infected with the virus.

Participants will have 2 follow-up visits, at 5 weeks and 9 weeks after they were infected. They will have a physical exam and provide samples of blood and nasal fluids. They will have a test of their heart function.

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This is a single-center study to evaluate infection after a second exposure to a low pathogenicity avian influenza A H10N7. Participants who have previously been challenged with H10N7 willbe rechallenged with 10\^7 Tissue Culture Infective Dose (TCID50) virus and followed for a minimum of 9 weeks after inoculation. The study hypothesis is that mild to moderate influenza disease (MMID) can be induced with the A/Mallard/Ohio/99/1989 H10N7 influenza challenge virus on re-exposure despite the potential development of immunity after the last challenge. This will be evaluated by monitoring participants for influenza disease symptoms, viral shedding, and immunological response. The primary way MMID will be determined will be through clinical testing for influenza and symptom monitoring.

Objectives:

Primary Objective:

1. Determine if participants develop MMID after a second challenge with A/Mallard/Ohio/99/1989 H10N7.

Secondary Objectives:

  1. Evaluate clinical disease, identify clinical markers, and observe initiation of shedding, length of shedding, and pathogenesis in participants with low pathogenicity avian influenza A infection.
  2. Evaluate immune response after a second challenge with H10N7 compared to the initial challenge.

Exploratory Objectives:

  1. Evaluate additional host immune responses, viral replication, viral fitness, and intrahost evolution.
  2. Evaluate clinical and virologic outcomes as outlined in primary and secondary objectives in subgroups of interest.
  3. Determine correlates of protection against H10N7 challenge.

Endpoints:

Primary Endpoint:

  1. Rate of MMID, defined as a positive US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved clinical test for influenza plus one or more influenza symptoms.

    Secondary Endpoints:

  2. Clinical outcomes after challenge including: a. Mean duration and quantity of shedding of influenza in nasal wash/synthetic absorptive matrices (SAM) by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR).

    b. Mean duration and number of symptoms and signs elicited by daily oral history and clinical exam compared to prior infection.

    c. Mean daily and total score of influenza patientreported outcome (FLU-PRO) questionnaire.

  3. Immunological responses after challenge including:

    1. Serum hemagglutination (HA) inhibition (HAI) and/or enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) against HA.
    2. Serum neuraminidase (NA) inhibition (NAI) and/or ELISA titers against NA.
    3. Mucosal ELISA titers against HA and NA.

Exploratory Endpoints:

  1. Immune response and viral factors including:

    1. Levels and type of influenza infection induced gene expression determined by human gene expression analysis and high-throughput sequencing.
    2. Characterization of B- and T-cell responses.
    3. Change in viral genotype from the inoculum of virus isolated from infected participants.
  2. MMID, shedding, symptom rates, and immune responses in subgroups of interest (including but not limited to those who

    had/had not MMID after the first challenge, had/had not shedding after first challenge).

  3. Immunological correlates of protection (like HAI, NAI, mucosal responses, cellular responses) in protecting against clinical outcomes (including MMID, shedding, symptoms).
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Conditions studied

  • Influenza Infection
  • Infections
  • Respiratory Virus Infections
  • Respiratory Tract Infections
  • RNA Viruses
  • Orthomyxoviridae Infections
  • Viral Diseases

Keywords

  • Influenza A
  • H10N7
  • Challenge Model
  • Influenza
  • Human Challenge
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In context

Influenza, Human Reclassified

2,356 studies on the registry are indexed under Influenza, Human; 184 are open to participants now.

This study's planned enrollment of 33 is below the median of 227 across 1,957 interventional studies indexed under Influenza, Human.

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Lead sponsor

National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) is the lead sponsor of 2,446 studies on the registry; 179 are open to participants now.

Of its 405 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 302 (75%) have results posted.

Compared within Influenza, Human, this study's primary condition as ClinicalTrials.gg classifies it; the registry's first condition term is Infections. The counts are of registry records indexed under each term, refreshed daily. How we classify →

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years to 55 Years
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
Yes

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Inclusion criteria

An individual must meet all of the following criteria to be eligible for study participation:

  1. Previously participated in the H10N7 influenza challenge study 20-I-0160 ("Dose- Escalation Study of a Low Pathogenicity Avian H10N7 Influenza Virus in a Healthy Human Challenge Model") and given a viral challenge H10N7.
  2. >=18 and \<=55 years of age.
  3. Able to provide .
  4. Agrees to not use tobacco products, marijuana, or vaping products through the last mandatory visit.
  5. Willing to remain in isolation for a minimum of 9 calendar days (or for the duration of viral shedding) and to comply with all study requirements.
  6. A male subject is eligible for the study if he meets one of the following criteria, beginning at least 4 weeks prior to enrollment and continuing until follow-up visit #2:

    1. Is infertile, including history of successful vasectomy.
    2. Agrees to practice abstinence.
    3. Agrees that, with heterosexual intercourse with a fertile female partner, he will use a condom with spermicide and his female partner will use an acceptable form of (see inclusion criterion 7c).
  7. A female participant is eligible for this study if she is not pregnant or breastfeeding and meets one of the following criteria, beginning at least 4 weeks prior to enrollment and continuing until follow-up visit #2:

    1. Is infertile, including status (as defined by no menses for >=1 year) or history of hysterectomy.
    2. Agrees to practice abstinence.
    3. Agrees that, with heterosexual intercourse with a fertile male partner, she will use an acceptable form of contraception, and her male partner will use a condom with spermicide. Acceptable effective methods of female contraception include the following: bilateral tubal ligation, implant of levonorgestrel, injectable progestogen, intrauterine device, oral contraceptive pills, and diaphragm with spermicide.
  8. Willing to have samples stored for future research.
  9. (HIV) uninfected with a negative test within 90 days of inoculation (Day 0).
  10. Ability to speak English.

Exclusion criteria

EXCLUSION CRITERIA:

An individual meeting any of the following criteria will be excluded from study participation:

  1. Has self-reported or medically documented significant medical condition including but not limited to:

    1. Chronic pulmonary disease (e.g., asthma, emphysema).
    2. Chronic cardiovascular disease (e.g., cardiomyopathy, congestive heart failure, cardiac surgery, ischemic heart disease, known anatomic defects).
    3. Chronic medical conditions requiring close medical follow-up or hospitalization during the past 5 years (e.g., insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, renal dysfunction, hemoglobinopathies).
    4. or ongoing .
    5. Neurological and neurodevelopmental conditions (e.g., cerebral palsy, epilepsy, stroke, seizures).
    6. Post-infectious or post-vaccine neurological sequelae.
  2. Has close or household (i.e., share the same apartment or house) high-risk contacts including but not limited to:

    1. Persons >=65 years of age.
    2. Children \<=5 years of age.
    3. Residents of nursing homes.
    4. Persons of any age with significant chronic medical conditions such as:

      • Chronic pulmonary disease (e.g., asthma).
      • Chronic cardiovascular disease (e.g., cardiomyopathy, congestive heart failure, cardiac surgery, ischemic heart disease, known anatomic defects).
      • Chronic medical conditions requiring medical follow-up or hospitalization during the past 5 years (e.g., insulin-dependent diabetes mellitus, renal dysfunction, hemoglobinopathies).
      • Immunosuppression or cancer.
      • Neurological and neurodevelopmental conditions (e.g., cerebral palsy, epilepsy, stroke, seizures).
      • Persons who are receiving long-term aspirin therapy.
      • Women who are pregnant, trying to become pregnant, or breastfeeding.
  3. Has a (BMI) \<=18.5 or >=35.
  4. Smokes more than 4 cigarettes or other tobacco products on a weekly basis or any type of vaping/e-cigarette use more than 4 times per week.
  5. History of facial reconstructive procedures or nasopharyngeal malformation that would preclude nasal sampling.
  6. Positive for or infections.
  7. Complete blood count (CBC) with differential outside of the NIH Department of Laboratory Medicine (DLM) normal reference range and deemed by the PI.
  8. Grade 2 or higher decrease for female participants or Grade 1 or higher hemoglobin decrease for male participants.
  9. Chemistries in the acute care, mineral, and/or hepatic panels, and/or any of the following: lactate dehydrogenase (LDH), uric acid, creatine kinase, and total protein outside of the NIH DLM normal reference range and deemed clinically significant by the PI.
  10. Urinalysis outside of the NIH DLM normal reference range and deemed clinically significant by the PI.
  11. Clinically significant abnormality as deemed by the PI on .
  12. Clinically significant abnormality as deemed by the PI on ECHO.
  13. Clinically significant abnormality as deemed by the PI on the PFT and/or spirometry.
  14. Recent acute illness within 1 week of admission to the NIH CC.
  15. Positive test for any respiratory virus on nasal wash (including but not limited to SARSCoV-2) on admission.
  16. Known allergy to any component of the interventional agent.
  17. Known allergy to treatments for influenza (including but not limited to oseltamivir, nonsteroidals anti-inflammatory drugs).
  18. Known allergy to 2 or more classes of antibiotics (e.g., penicillins, cephalosporins, fluoroquinolones, or glycopeptides).
  19. Receipt of influenza vaccine within 8 weeks prior to enrollment.
  20. Receipt of a broadly protective influenza vaccine or avian influenza vaccine.
  21. Natural infection with avian influenza outside of the research setting.
  22. Having influenza infection within 8 weeks prior to enrollment.
  23. Receipt of blood or blood products (including immunoglobulins) within 3 months prior to enrollment.
  24. Receipt of any unlicensed drug within 3 months or 5.5 half-lives (whichever is greater) prior to enrollment.
  25. Receipt of any unlicensed vaccine within 6 months prior to enrollment.
  26. Self-reported or known history of current alcoholism or drug abuse, or positive urine/serum test for drugs of abuse (i.e., amphetamines, cocaine, benzodiazepines, opiates, or metabolite and tetrahydrocannabinol or metabolites).
  27. Self-reported or known history of psychiatric or psychological issues deemed by the PI to be a to protocol participation.
  28. Known close contact with anyone known to have influenza in the past 7 days.
  29. Known close contact with anyone known to have COVID-19 in the past 14 days.
  30. History of COVID-19-related complications, including, but not limited to: inpatient hospitalization, required the use of oxygen, and/or on-going sequelae.
  31. Any condition that, in the judgment of the PI, is a contraindication to protocol participation or impairs the volunteer s ability to give .
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(13)

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You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.

Contraception

Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.

Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.

Postmenopausal

Periods have stopped for good: usually no period for 12 months in a row without another medical reason, sometimes confirmed by a blood test (FSH).

HIV

The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.

Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.

Immunosuppression

A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.

Read whether the line is about a condition or about medicines, and which medicines and doses it means.

Cancer (malignancy)

Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.

Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.

BMI (body mass index)

Weight in kilograms divided by height in metres squared. Example: 70 kg and 1.75 m gives 70 ÷ (1.75 × 1.75) ≈ 22.9.

What counts as overweight or obesity differs between countries (some use lower cut-offs), so go by the range the study states.

Hepatitis B tests

Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.

Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.

Hepatitis C tests

Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.

After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.

Clinically significant

Judged by the study doctor to matter for your health or for the study. It is a doctor’s decision, so ask the study team if you are unsure whether something counts.

Hemoglobin (Hb)

The protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen. A low level is anaemia, which can cause tiredness and breathlessness. Measured in g/dL or g/L (9 g/dL is 90 g/L).

ECG (electrocardiogram)

A recording of the heart’s electrical activity, taken with stickers on the chest, arms and legs. It takes a few minutes and does not hurt.

Contraindication

A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Basic science
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Sequential assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
33 participants (estimated)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    H10N7 Infection

    Subjects will be infected with H10N7 virus.

    Biological: A/Mallard/Ohio-99/MM4/1989 H10N7

Interventions

  • BiologicalA/Mallard/Ohio-99/MM4/1989 H10N7

    Low pathogenicity avian influenza virus H10N7

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Determine if participants develop mild-to-moderate influenza disease after a second challenge with H10N7.

    Subjects will remain inpatient for 9 days total to evaluate for infection and symptoms after infection with H10N7.

    Time frame: 9 days

Secondary outcomes

  1. Evaluate clinical disease, identify clinical markers, and observe initiation of shedding, length of shedding, and pathogenesis in participants with low pathogenicity avian influenza A infection.

    Subjects will be evaluated for clinical disease, shedding and analysis will be done on these findings compared to shedding after infection with H10N7 a second time.

    Time frame: 3 months

  2. Evaluate immune response after a second challenge with H10N7 compared to the initial challenge.

    We will conduct laboratory evaluation of antibody levels to the H10N7 virus compared to first challenge.

    Time frame: 2 years

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Study locations

1 site
  • National Institutes of Health Clinical Center
    Bethesda, Maryland 20892, United States
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References and documents

Publications

  • Choi YS, Baek YH, Kang W, Nam SJ, Lee J, You S, Chang DY, Youn JC, Choi YK, Shin EC. Reduced antibody responses to the pandemic (H1N1) 2009 vaccine after recent seasonal influenza vaccination. Clin Vaccine Immunol. 2011 Sep;18(9):1519-23. doi: 10.1128/CVI.05053-11. Epub 2011 Aug 3. PubMed 21813667 ↗
  • Memoli MJ, Han A, Walters KA, Czajkowski L, Reed S, Athota R, Angela Rosas L, Cervantes-Medina A, Park JK, Morens DM, Kash JC, Taubenberger JK. Influenza A Reinfection in Sequential Human Challenge: Implications for Protective Immunity and "Universal" Vaccine Development. Clin Infect Dis. 2020 Feb 14;70(5):748-753. doi: 10.1093/cid/ciz281. PubMed 30953061 ↗
  • Skowronski DM, Li Y, Tweed SA, Tam TW, Petric M, David ST, Marra F, Bastien N, Lee SW, Krajden M, Brunham RC. Protective measures and human antibody response during an avian influenza H7N3 outbreak in poultry in British Columbia, Canada. CMAJ. 2007 Jan 2;176(1):47-53. doi: 10.1503/cmaj.060204. PubMed 17200390 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

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Updates

2 registry updates since Sep 25, 2026
Primary completion
Sep 29, 2026→Sep 29, 2027
Oct 15, 2026
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  1. Oct 15, 2026
    Primary completion Sep 29, 2026→Sep 29, 2027
  2. Oct 13, 2026
    Minor edits only
    + 1 other change: description

From the registry record's own update history. This site started tracking changes on Sep 25, 2026; for anything earlier, see the record history on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗

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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT07215871
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Oct 14, 2025
Start date
Apr 21, 2026
Primary completion
Sep 29, 2027 (estimated)
Completion
Sep 29, 2027 (estimated)
Last update
Oct 15, 2026

Study contacts

Luca T Giurgea, M.D.
principal investigator · National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID)

Oversight

FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
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