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A Universal Flu Vaccine Is Headed to Clinical Trials
If clinical trials go well, a new universal flu vaccine that would treat all strains of flu with a single shot could be just five years away. That would mean a future where nearly 20,000 people won’t die due to a pandemic of the virus. A future where we wouldn’t have to spend a week in bed in misery even though we got a fucking flu shot this year. Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai and at Canada’s McMaster University began developing the vaccine three years ago...
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Really hopeful this becomes reality, more people die from the flu every year than all of the other news worthy pandemics you see on the news.