'Universal' vaccines could finally allow for wide-scale flu prevention
Monday, February 27, 2012 - 14:30
in Health & Medicine
Scientists have found that an emerging class of long-lasting flu vaccines called "universal" vaccines could for the first time allow for the effective, wide-scale prevention of flu by limiting the virus' ability to spread and mutate. A computational model showed that the vaccines could achieve unprecedented control of the flu virus both seasonally and during outbreaks of highly contagious new strains.