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The biomedical researchers at Georgia State University have designed a universal flu vaccine containing less variable proteins from both Influenza A and B virus including the multi-neuraminidase proteins and the universally present M2 ectodomain protein.  This vaccine has, to date, only been tested on mice but it was found to protect them from infection by a slew of diverse influenza viruses that include the influenza A seasonal variants H1N1, H5N1, H3N2, H9N2 and H7N9 as well as the Yamagata and Victoria lineage influenza B viruses.   The next step: testing in ferrets that possess respiratory tracts similar to humans.  Then, no doubt, on to the clinic.

 

https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1010755

 

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