An experimental flu vaccine made in insect cells - not in eggs, where flu vaccines currently available in the United States are grown - is safe and as effective as conventional vaccines in protecting people against the flu, according to results published in the April 11 issue of the Journal of the American Medical Association.
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St. Jude study success in using virus enzyme to treat mouse model of acute otitis media suggests that nasal spray could prevent both ear infection and pneumonia in people with influenza
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As public health officials around the world keep a nervous eye on the spread of avian influenza, the University of Saskatchewan's Vaccine and Infectious Disease Organization (VIDO) has uncovered a key step in how the influenza virus causes infection.
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