‘Key step’ closer to universal flu vaccine
Researchers have discovered that the pandemic 2009 H1N1 vaccine can generate antibodies that protect against a variety of flu strains.
“Since discovering last year that people infected with the H1N1 2009 virus produced antibodies against multiple flu strains, our goal has been to test this ability in vaccinated individuals,” says Rafi Ahmed, director of the Emory Vaccine Center at Emory University.
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