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Last August in Professor Peter Doherty On Bird Flu I wrote about an Australian Life Scientist Magazine interview with world renown 1996 Nobel Prize winning scientist Professor Peter Doherty, who discussed the pandemic potential of the H5N1 avian virus.
Today, The Conversation – which is a combined journalistic effort by a number of Australian Universities – has the first of a two-part article by Professor Doherty on influenza.
Rather than try to excerpt or summarize his views, I’ll simply provide a link so you can read the entire article.
Author
Peter C. Doherty
Laureate Professor at University of Melbourne10 November 2011, 2.36pm AEST
Global efforts against flu evolving in the face of continuing threat
Influenza is never off the news agenda for long. If it’s not the flu season (and it always is in one hemisphere) and the attendant calls for vaccinations, it’s news about vaccines causing problems or new ones that will imbue immunity to all variants and mutations of the virus.
In this first of a two-part series on influenza and the future of vaccines for it, Peter Doherty discusses how these viruses mutate and how we monitor them to create effective vaccines.
Tomorrow’s article will look at the feasibility of developing a “universal” flu vaccine.
