Advisory Board November 30, 2022
Anew experimental flu vaccine generated high levels of antibodies against all 20 influenza subtypes in early animal tests, results experts say are “unexpected and promising” and could help prevent future pandemics if a novel flu virus emerges, Apoorva Mandavilli writes in the New York Times.
A new universal flu vaccine shows promise
According to Mandavilli, there are 20 subgroups of influenza that each contain thousands of different viral strains. Because there are so many flu strains, it can be difficult to build immunity against all of them, whether through infection or vaccination.
Although most children will have gained some immunity against the flu by the age of five, they are only protected against the strains that they have encountered.
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