Vaccine Provides Broad Protection Against The Flu In Mice

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Researchers make important breakthrough in finding a vaccine with long-term protection against the flu. CLIPAREA Custom media/Shutterstock

Influenza – or the flu – is a highly infectious, viral illness. The flu shot is a seasonal vaccine that only protects against a certain type of the flu virus. This means people have to receive the flu shot every year as the virus that causes the flu changes annually. Finding a vaccine that can protect people against multiple variants of the virus has been quite difficult, but two different studies report an important breakthrough.