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Newly Developed RNA-Based Vaccine Could Offer Lifelong Protection From the Flu

Posted by samzenpus on from the one-shot-to-rule-them-all dept.

An anonymous reader writes "A new experimental flu vaccine made out of messenger RNA that may work for life is now being developed. German researchers said on Sunday that the vaccine, made of the genetic material that controls the production of proteins, protected animals against influenza and, unlike traditional vaccines, it may work for life and can potentially be manufactured quickly enough to stop a pandemic (abstract)."

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  1. zombies? by WillgasM · · Score: 5, Funny

    Are we seriously trying to bring about the zombie apocalypse now?

  2. Re:Or... by Culture20 · · Score: 5, Funny

    strange half-man/half-flu monstrosity

    How's that work? A man that constantly seeks to deposit his genetic material into others with a side effect of replication? That's 100% man!

  3. Re:Great idea .... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Insightful

    This is why it is being done in Germany. Countries with socialized health care systems are putting a lot of funding into permanent cures.
    It is why when I graduate I will probably end up going to another country to work for a while. If you want to want to do permanent cures for disease then the USA is not currently the place to do it, the profit motive of medicine in the USA basically works against it happening.