Friday, 4 December 2015

Universal flu shots may be impossible thanks to duped immune cells

Universal flu shots may be impossible thanks to duped immune cells



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H1N1 flu virus (credit: NIAID/Flickr) Ditching annual flu shots for a single stick that can protect year after year may be even harder to do than scientists thought—thanks to our own bamboozled immune systems. Influenza viruses are infamous masters of mutation, changing themselves ever so slightly to dodge detection by immune cells. That viral variation

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