In the United States are developing a universal vaccine against influenza

At the National Institutes of Health, Dr. Matt Memoli is developing a universal vaccine. against flu. This says Voice of America.

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The scientist is assisted by three volunteers who are infected with the H1N1 influenza virus, which caused a pandemic in the US in 2009 year. Volunteers will spend 10 days in a special department of the Institute of Health, where they will be tested universal vaccine against influenza. At the end of the experiment, each volunteer will receive $ 3500 dollars.

At the moment, one of the volunteers Emily Lalt has injected through the nose a solution that contains the influenza virus. A day later, the girl reported that she had a tickle in her throat and she began to feel a disease.

Specialists are trying to figure out what part of the human immune system must be protected in order to create a universal vaccine.

Every year, the influenza virus is slightly modified, and scientists have to develop a vaccine for each strain. However, some elements of the influenza virus remain unchanged. And if scientists manage to find a way to suppress the invariable elements of the virus, this could become the basis of a universal vaccine that will not need to be updated with the advent of the new strain.

This year, the flu virus killed more than 80 children in the United States. The country was hit by one of the most severe flu viruses in history. The average duration of illness is fixed at 16 weeks. Although there have been cases when the flu season lasted 20 weeks.

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