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A Universal Flu Vaccine?

Posted on October 26, 2010 by David Esteban

The flu comes back year after year, and every season we get vaccinated (well, some of us anyway).  Why do we need to keep getting a new shot for the flu while for others, like measles, we got way back … Continue reading →

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1918 and 2009

Posted on October 12, 2010 by David Esteban

The 1918 influenza pandemic (the “Spanish Flu”), by some estimates, killed as many as 100 million people in a very short period of time.  The 2009 “Swine Flu” pandemic didnt kill so many, but it spread rapidly and widely across … Continue reading →

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