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Experts say the bird flu virus is now a problem throughout the entire year, and the fact that it continues to be prevalent in wild populations is an indication that record outbreaks may not end anytime soon on poultry farms.
Now scientists in the united states have developed a vaccine against all 20 known a and b strains. the vaccine gave broad protection in animal trials using mice and ferrets. the vaccine was created using the same mrna technology as deployed in the pfizer—biontech and moderna covid jabs. it contains instructions to our cells to produce the different spike proteins on the surface of the virus. so why does this matter? a universal flu vaccine would not give perfect protection, and we would probably need a newjab each winter — but it could prime the immune system against every potential flu th...
As deployed in the pfizer/biontech and moderna covid jabs. it contains instructions to our cells to produce the different spike proteins on the surface of the virus. so why does this matter? a universal flu vaccine would not give perfect protection, and we'd probably need a new flu jab each winter. but it could prime the immune system against every potential flu threat, so blunting the impact of any new pandemic. we've seen over the course of history that influenza viruses do cause pandemics every ten or 20 years. and when that next pandemic strain hits us, we hope that this kind of vaccine, i...
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