It could take five to 10 more years of development before, if all goes well, a 'universal' flu vaccine is ready for the real world.
The problem is, there are many strains within those two groups, and different ones are in high circulation each flu season. So the
has to be updated annually to include the four strains that scientists think are likely to dominate in the upcoming season."And that guess isn't always correct," said Dr. Mirella Salvatore, an associate professor at Weill Cornell Medicine in New York City, and a spokeswoman for the Infectious Diseases Society of America.
Salvatore, who was not involved in the new research, said that a universal flu vaccine could not only get rid of the yearly guessing game, but also help arm people for the next flu pandemic.are in various stages of development. The one Andrews and her colleagues are working on has now passed an early test, according to Salvatore.
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