Regina Barber
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Hundreds of thousands more were hospitalized and millions were infected.
And this is a moderate season.
In the event of a whole flu pandemic, those numbers could be much higher.
That's Adolfo García Sastre, a viral immunologist at the ICANN School of Medicine at Mount Sinai in New York.
He's working on a vaccine that could not only protect people from a pandemic flu virus, but all flu viruses.
No more annual flu shots.
He calls it a universal flu vaccine.
A vaccine like this hasn't been possible before because the virus that causes the flu, influenza, mutates every year, evading the previous year's vaccine.
And Adolfo and his team are working on a vaccine that can target all versions of the influenza virus, past, present and future, if they can find the resources.
Today on the show, the science behind a vaccine against all flus and what scientists need to make it a reality.
I'm Regina Barber and you're listening to Shortwave, the science podcast from NPR.
Okay, Adolfo, what about the flu virus impacts why we need a yearly vaccine?
So flu A, which comes into H subtypes, and then Bs.
Okay.
Right.
Right.
So all of this refers to current vaccine strategies, like what we do now.
That's based on targeting parts of the viruses that change.
But what you're working on is targeting regions that stay the same in the influenza virus in order to make this universal flu vaccine.
one that we wouldn't need to get every year.
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