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re: imugene closing in on vaccine Freddifish

Vaccines are useful for epidemics hopping that the last year flu strain appears again.

Vaccines are useless if the next strain is unknown and the next pandemic will be hit by an unknown strain, it would not be exactly like the current bird flu.

It is silly to say that you got a vaccine for the current avian flu will stop a pandemic when the pandemic will be caused by a strain that has not evolved yet.

Relenza's mechanism prevents all known strains detected this century from spreading, empirically it can be said that it will prevent any flu virus that requires N to leave the host cell. It fact, it locks up N perfectly, not like Tamiflu that only locks up N after molecular rearrangement.

Its a pity people find this so difficult to comprehend.