Technology Review: A Long-lasting Universal Flu Vaccine

Technology Review: A Long-lasting Universal Flu Vaccine

This article is just about a promising early vaccine that has a lot of potential to give long term protection against the most common varieties of the flu. It offers mild protection against one major class (H1N1 - Swine Flu), moderate protection against another class (H5 - Avian Flu), and absolute protection against the most common type (H3). Sadly, it's only proven in mice. They are moving on to testing it in better human analog animals now. This has the potential, though, to be a big help; providing immunization for decades. Even if it only is effective for the H3 variety, it's still going to be a big help.