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Aug. 17, 2012
Working Towards a Universal Flu Vaccine
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Each year, you need a new influenza vaccination to protect against the ever-changing seasonal flu virus. Then there's more exotic influenza variants such as swine flu and avian flu. Gary Nabel, director of the Vaccine Research Center at the NIH, discusses the ongoing quest to develop one vaccine that could protect against all influenza variants at once.
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Gary Nabel
Director of the Vaccine Research Center
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
National Institutes of Health
Bethesda, Maryland
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