tetano
Editor, Senior Moderator
The only real hope to stop future influenza pandemics such as we?re now facing from bird flu, is to develop a ?universal? flu vaccine that innoculates us against all influenza viruses.
This would also eliminate the habit of giving people a new flu shot every Fall.
The European Union is funding a cooperative project called Universal Vaccine, to produce a vaccine capable of innoculating people permanantly against all Type A and B strains of influenza.
They plan to focus on the M2e, the extracullular domain of the ion channel protein M2 which is maintained in all A type influenza viruses. This ectodomain that protrudes from M2 is made up of 23 amino acids. Walter Fiers, co-inventor of the process said, ?The structure of M2e is almost identical in all known flu viruses that can be transmitted between people.?
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http://genetichemistry.com/genetic-science/will-a-universal-flu-vaccine-stop-future-pandemics/
This would also eliminate the habit of giving people a new flu shot every Fall.
The European Union is funding a cooperative project called Universal Vaccine, to produce a vaccine capable of innoculating people permanantly against all Type A and B strains of influenza.
They plan to focus on the M2e, the extracullular domain of the ion channel protein M2 which is maintained in all A type influenza viruses. This ectodomain that protrudes from M2 is made up of 23 amino acids. Walter Fiers, co-inventor of the process said, ?The structure of M2e is almost identical in all known flu viruses that can be transmitted between people.?
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http://genetichemistry.com/genetic-science/will-a-universal-flu-vaccine-stop-future-pandemics/
