CLEVELAND: The recently developed universal flu vaccine has given positive results in mice experiments.
A universal flu vaccine that has demonstrated the ability to protect against all effects of influenza could soon be on the market, researchers report.
Researchers reported in the Journal of Virology that the vaccine induced a strong immune response in laboratory mice and protected against severe infection after being infected with the virus.
The flu vaccine combines eight proteins from five different types of influenza virus to provide immune protection against any type of flu, the researchers said. However, more research is needed, as animal-based trials can always produce different results in humans.
Lead researcher Naoko Uno, a virologist and postdoctoral fellow at the Cleveland Clinic, said that using data from previous studies, the researchers concluded that these eight proteins together provide a durable and comprehensive immune response against the flu. can do
