{"id":107116,"date":"2020-05-15T10:51:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-15T17:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/a-potential-universal-flu-vaccine-just-passed-an-important-clinical-trial"},"modified":"2020-05-15T10:51:21","modified_gmt":"2020-05-15T17:51:21","slug":"a-potential-universal-flu-vaccine-just-passed-an-important-clinical-trial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/05\/a-potential-universal-flu-vaccine-just-passed-an-important-clinical-trial","title":{"rendered":"A Potential Universal Flu Vaccine Just Passed an Important Clinical Trial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-potential-universal-flu-vaccine-just-passed-an-important-clinical-trial2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There may be hope yet for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/universal-flu-vaccine-funded-by-gv-clinical-trials\">universal flu vaccine<\/a> \u2014 one powerful dose of immunisation that can provide long-lasting protection for multiple influenza strains, all in a single shot.<\/p>\n<p>A discovery like that would be a holy grail for public health, and after more than a decade of careful research, a specific version called FLU-v is now moving into the last rounds of clinical testing.<\/p>\n<p>So far, researchers say the results <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2020-03-universal-flu-vaccine-horizon.html\">have been<\/a> \u201cvery encouraging\u201d, and the vaccine has successfully passed phase I and phase II clinical trials. Although trials in these phases are limited to assessing the safety of the vaccine, there\u2019s also evidence it might be effective.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There may be hope yet for a universal flu vaccine \u2014 one powerful dose of immunisation that can provide long-lasting protection for multiple influenza strains, all in a single shot. A discovery like that would be a holy grail for public health, and after more than a decade of careful research, a specific version called [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1495],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-107116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-health"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107116\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}