Building a Better Flu Vaccine
Jul 14th, 2010
Vaccines likely would work better in protecting children from flu if they included both strains of influenza B instead of just one, Saint Louis University research has found.
“Adding a second influenza B virus strain to the seasonal influenza vaccine would take some of the guesswork out of strain selection and help improve the vaccine’s ability to prevent influenza,” said Robert Belshe, M.D., lead investigator and director of the Center for Vaccine Development at Saint Louis University.
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