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The failure to provide an effective flu vaccine last year may have contributed to the largest rise in deaths in England and Wales for 12 years, the government's public health agency has admitted.
No sow's ear ReprintsJohn Edmunds, of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and his colleagues hope they might be able to do better by recruiting volunteers in advance, for a "citizen science" project designed to discover how much influenza is really out there, how it spreads and how effective flu vaccines are.
A combination of mild weather and an effective flu vaccine meant there were several thousand less fatalities this winter than last year, according to Fairfax.
To lessen the severity of this pandemic, developing an effective flu vaccine and a global vaccination strategy is considered to be among the most important medical interventions [ 4].
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The research about such exaggerated immune responses could lead to more-effective flu drugs and radically change the way all kinds of infections are treated, leading virologists say.
An effective universal flu vaccine would already be able to fight it.
Although substances called adjuvants are sometimes added to vaccines to make them more effective, no flu vaccine sold in the United States, including the H1N1 2009 vaccine, contains any adjuvants.
FluMist vaccine — a live virus in a nasal spray — is much more effective than flu shots in protecting young children against the disease, a study has found.
Another question is how effective the flu vaccine will be in protecting against the Fujian strain, which is the predominant one circulating in the United States and Europe but was not included in this year's vaccine.
Large-scale trials of a new compound show that it quickly beats back the influenza virus — results that could admit this compound to the small club of effective antiviral flu drugs.
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