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Scientists have discovered how flu-killing immunity cells can memorise strains of influenza and destroy them, raising hopes for a new type of flu vaccine to give lifelong protection against the illness.
The teams from The University of Melbourne and the Shanghai Public Health Centre in China found some patients who contacted the H7N9 bird flu in China in 2013 recovered more quickly than others.
Ninety-nine per cent of the people who got the virus were hospitalised and 30 per cent died.
Those who recovered appeared to have had an early immunity from so-called killer T-cells, Melbourne University Associate Professor Katherine Kedzierska said.
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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-...hopes-raised-by-immune-cell-discovery/6468478
The teams from The University of Melbourne and the Shanghai Public Health Centre in China found some patients who contacted the H7N9 bird flu in China in 2013 recovered more quickly than others.
Ninety-nine per cent of the people who got the virus were hospitalised and 30 per cent died.
Those who recovered appeared to have had an early immunity from so-called killer T-cells, Melbourne University Associate Professor Katherine Kedzierska said.
...
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-05-...hopes-raised-by-immune-cell-discovery/6468478