BBC NEWS | Health | Universal flu jab works in people - The Diigo Meta page

• 06 Jan 08
  

  Ian Yorston

  Current flu vaccines work by giving immunity to two proteins (haemagglutinin + neuraminidase) which readily mutate. A new vaccine homes in on protein M2, which is found on the surface of all A-strains of flu and does not appear to mutate so readily.

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• 04 Jan 08
  

  Julia Lesage

  Bird flu can/will cause a pandemic; new kind of vaccine, under dev't, homes in on a protein which is found on the surface of all A-strains of flu and does not mutate. Yearly flu vaccines now attack proteins that do mutate.

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