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This is interestiing. Thanks for the heads up.I will check it out.Netflix Pandemic.
Its a series with 4 or 5 different vignettes, but one that caught my interest is about Distributed Bio.
They are pursuing a vaccine for ALL influenza. Basically, they have taken the idea that creating a vaccine taking bits of all historical inluenza up to recent and combining. They are currently in Guatemala doing trials. In the lab, it seems to be effective.
What a novel idea. Instead of focusing on one strain and estimating which strain will be virulent in the coming year, the vaccine would protect one from all influenza.
This has the makings of World War Z (the book version, amazing read if anyone has an interest). Man, it will be a time I will be extra happy to live in Louisiana as opposed to NYC or Miami.
The end goal with the universal flu vaccine is pretty cool. Each flu virus has thousands of different DNA code but every flu virus also has part of the DNA code that is same. It basically uses every flu virus since 1918 in one shot and trains the immune system to recognize the the parts of the code that are the same in the flu so that any mutation it is ignoring everything but the base code that is the same. It's done really well in animal testing. Also of note, Bill Gates foundation has done a whole lot along the way to help make it happen.How would a universal vaccine work against flu viruses that mutate relatively rapidly? Would this be something they'd have to constantly be updating, like virus definitions on a computer?
Who knows? That said the flu strain making it's yearly round in the USA is far more deadly than the wuhan virus.
The flu is a far bigger threat to most people in the US than the Wuhan coronavirus. Here's why.
Five people in the US have been diagnosed with the coronavirus that started in China. Since October, at least 10,000 Americans have died of influenza.www.businessinsider.com
Third case in Japan, but also from Wuhan. Still no second degree infections anywhere in the world - that I know of at least.