Health Tech Capitol | Flu shots urged as Madison’s FluGen plays role in effort for universal vaccine
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Flu shots urged as Madison’s FluGen plays role in effort for universal vaccine

18 Oct Flu shots urged as Madison’s FluGen plays role in effort for universal vaccine

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With flu season approaching, health officials say people should get flu shots by the end of October, yet acknowledge that the annual vaccine generally works less than 60 percent of the time.

The Madison company FluGen is part of a renewed national effort to improve the odds by developing a universal flu vaccine, which would protect against more types of flu, possibly for many years.

“The current vaccines are surely better than nothing,” said Michael Osterholm, director of the University of Minnesota’s Center for Infectious Disease Research and Policy. “But we’ve got to get new vaccines that work much better.”

Read more at the Wisconsin State Journal

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