A Universal Flu Vaccine Is Getting Closer to Reality
"We might be one major step closer toward ending the scourge of the
seasonal flu. This week, the U.S. National Institutes of Health
announced the start of a phase I clinical trial testing out a potential
universal flu vaccine. The safety and immune response of the
experimental shot will be compared to a typical annual flu vaccine.
The candidate was developed by researchers at the NIH’s National
Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases’ (NIAID) Vaccine Research
Center. It’s a mRNA-based vaccine, much like the first generation of
covid-19 vaccines. The NIH is conducting the trial in conjunction with
Duke University in North Carolina; they plan to enroll up to 50 healthy
volunteers between the ages of 18 and 49."
See:
https://gizmodo.com/universal-flu-va...rna-1850451350