{"id":87902,"date":"2019-02-18T13:42:40","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T21:42:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/killer-cells-raise-hope-of-universal-flu-vaccine"},"modified":"2019-02-18T13:42:40","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T21:42:40","slug":"killer-cells-raise-hope-of-universal-flu-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2019\/02\/killer-cells-raise-hope-of-universal-flu-vaccine","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Killer\u2019 cells raise hope of universal flu vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/killer-cells-raise-hope-of-universal-flu-vaccine.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Scientists said Monday they had discovered immune cells that can fight all known flu viruses in what was hailed as an \u201cextraordinary breakthrough\u201d that could lead to a universal, one-shot vaccine against the killer disease.<\/p>\n<p>Influenza epidemics, largely seasonal, kill hundreds of thousands of people each year, according to the World Health Organization.<\/p>\n<p>Due to its mutating strains, vaccine formulas must be regularly updated and only offer limited protection currently.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2019-02-killer-cells-universal-flu-vaccine.html\">https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/news\/2019&#45;02-killer-cells-univ...ccine.html<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists said Monday they had discovered immune cells that can fight all known flu viruses in what was hailed as an \u201cextraordinary breakthrough\u201d that could lead to a universal, one-shot vaccine against the killer disease. Influenza epidemics, largely seasonal, kill hundreds of thousands of people each year, according to the World Health Organization. Due to [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1522],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-87902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-innovation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87902","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=87902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87902\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}