Scientific American |
Flu Vaccine “Factories” Create Errors That Reduce Protection
Scientific American Flu vaccines saved an estimated 40,000 American lives between 2005 and 2014, but they are not good enough.The vaccine used during the 2016–17 flu season, for example, was only 43 percent effective against the predominant influenza A H3N2 strain, ... Here's One Reason Flu Vaccines Are So Lousy: They're Grown in Eggs A Penn scientist says he knows why last year's flu vaccine was so bad H3N2 mutation in last year's flu vaccine responsible for lowered efficacy |
from Health - Google News http://ift.tt/2hLE9ME
EmoticonEmoticon