Clinical trial of mRNA universal influenza vaccine candidate begins

Re:Clinical trial of mRNA universal influenza vaccine candid... by weaksauce on Monday May 15, 2023 @06:38PM (#35955467)

> But it doesn't make a lot of sense to me since influenza will be mutating to escape the immune response.

unless there is sufficient number of people that take it and it works well enough to eradicate it like say polio was.

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Re:Clinical trial of mRNA universal influenza vaccine candid... by palebluedot on Monday May 15, 2023 @07:01PM (#35955675)

Given the anti-vaccine resurgence, I think it is unlikely for the flu vaccine update to reach that sort of critical mass.

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Re:Clinical trial of mRNA universal influenza vaccine candid... by wsc981 on Monday May 15, 2023 @09:33PM (#35956795)

Especially now that governments don’t want to aid people financially that got harmed by the vaccines, since getting a vaccine was voluntarily [0].

It’s not like governments stated that the vaccines are both safe and effective and indirectly put pressure on people to get the vaccine, after all.

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Re:Clinical trial of mRNA universal influenza vaccine candid... by pixl97 on Monday May 15, 2023 @09:40PM (#35956840)

Flu commonly comes from animal carriers, such as birds and swine, so I'm not sure if wiping it from humans will ever eradicate the disease.

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Re:Clinical trial of mRNA universal influenza vaccine candid... by revelio on Wednesday May 17, 2023 @04:00AM (#35972456)

Polio wasn't eradicated.

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