Researchers are a step closer to developing a universal flu vaccine to help prevent seasonal influenza, which causes millions of hospitalizations and between 12,000 and 79,000 deaths in the United States each year. Florian Kramer, PhD, Associate Professor of Microbiology at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, discusses how his team is targeting a different part of the virus that will protect against a wider range of flu viruses.
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