Influenza — Worldwide/Unknown
US researchers reported yesterday [20 Oct 2013] that giving mice a flu vaccine and simultaneously treating them with rapamycin, an immune-suppressing drug, caused them to generate antibodies that were protective against other flu strains, including H5N1 and H7N9. The authors, from St Jude Children’s Research Center in Memphis and the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center in Seattle, reported their findings in Nature Immunology [Nature Immunology (2013) Published online 20 Oct 2013, ].
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