Fighting the flu, year after year

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) In a New England Journal of Medicine perspective, experts from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health, and the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre for Reference and Research on Influenza in Melbourne discuss how the process of preparing seasonal influenza vaccines in eggs may contribute to their limited effectiveness. The authors offer research strategies that might yield more protective vaccine candidates.
Source: EurekAlert! - Infectious and Emerging Diseases - Category: Infectious Diseases Source Type: news