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New jab to end need for annual flu shot

SCIENTISTS believe they are close to creating a universal flu vaccine that could end the need for annual injections in as little as three years. A team of researchers from Seek, a small biotech firm in London, developed the FLU-v vaccine after working on a group of non mutating proteins that are common to all strains of the flu virus, including those that can cause pandemics. FLU-v accelerates the creation of particular groups of T-cells, a type of […]