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MIT SCIENTISTS MAKING KEY PROGRESS ON UNIVERSAL FLU VACCINE

BY DAN ROBITZSKI MIT scientists just made important progress toward a universal flu vaccine — an inoculation against all influenza viruses at once. When we’re vaccinated against a flu, our immune system generates antibodies that target a protein on the virus called hemagglutinin (HA). It turns out that the difference between a seasonal flu shot...