Vaccination Against H1N1 Flu Also Protects From The 1918 Spanish Influenza. Part 2 of 3

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The authors worked with three groups of mice, injecting them with either the 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine, a seasonal influenza vaccine, or no vaccine. Three weeks following vaccination, all the mice were exposed to a cold-blooded dosage of the 1918 Spanish influenza virus. The researchers observed that only mice from the aggregation that had been inoculated with the 2009 H1N1 vaccine were able to survive, although some from that group also succumbed to the Spanish influenza exposure.

In a second enclosing of testing, Garcia-Sastre’s team also injected mice with blood serum drawn from people who had been vaccinated against H1N1, and then exposed them to the Spanish influenza virus. In this way, the researchers found that antibodies gift in human blood exposed to the H1N1 vaccine may also offer some protection against Spanish influenza.

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