The model revealed that deployment of universal vaccines across large populations could reduce flu transmission more efficiently than conventional vaccines. (sciencedaily.com)
However, researchers are working to develop universal vaccines that could protect against multiple flu strains without needing to be updated. (sciencedaily.com)
Vaccination is the most effective strategy against flu, particularly the pandemic strains that emerge periodically, but efforts to develop a single, universal vaccine against all flu strains have been unsuccessful. (sciencedaily.com)