Thursday, April 19, 2018

Study predicts 2018 flu vaccine will likely have 20 percent efficacy

A new study of 6,610 human flu sequences predicts that this fall’s flu vaccine will likely have the same reduced efficacy against the dominant circulating strain of influenza A as the vaccine given in 2016 and 2017 due to viral mutations related to vaccine production in eggs.



from Top Health News – ScienceDaily http://bit.ly/2F17P0V
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