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.
Sponsored by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) · Phase 1, Interventional, and Basic science
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:
Exploratory Objectives:
Endpoints:
Primary Endpoint:
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:
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.
Immunological responses after challenge including:
Exploratory Endpoints:
Immune response and viral factors including:
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).
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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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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An individual must meet all of the following criteria to be eligible for study participation:
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:
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:
EXCLUSION CRITERIA:
An individual meeting any of the following criteria will be excluded from study participation:
Has self-reported or medically documented significant medical condition including but not limited to:
Has close or household (i.e., share the same apartment or house) high-risk contacts including but not limited to:
Persons of any age with significant chronic medical conditions such as:
Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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).
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.
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.
Informed consent
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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).
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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).
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Subjects will be infected with H10N7 virus.
Biological: A/Mallard/Ohio-99/MM4/1989 H10N7
Low pathogenicity avian influenza virus H10N7
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
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
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
Plan to share: No
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