Scientists may be 'on the cusp' of a universal flu vaccine
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We may be one step closer to a universal flu vaccine, according to a new study.
In the study, published Monday (March 9) in the journal Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers found that a single dose of the vaccine, called Flu-v, elicited greater immune responses than placebo in a small trial involving 175 volunteers. These results suggest that the vaccine is safe and potentially effective, and the research will usher Flu-v into the final stages of clinical testing.
"We're on the cusp of a universal flu vaccine," said Dr. Amesh Adalja, an infectious-diseases specialist and senior scholar at Johns Hopkins Center for Health Security in Baltimore, who was not involved in the new study. "It's long been a joke that a universal flu vaccine is always five years away. But I think, this time, it really is coming within the next five years."
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