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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/oneforall-flu-vaccine-hailed.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Scientists have successfully tested a flu vaccine on volunteers that could work against all known strains of the illness" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/min-oneforall-flu-vaccine-hailed.jpg" alt="Scientists have successfully tested a flu vaccine on volunteers that could work against all known strains of the illness"/></a></p>
<p>Scientists have successfully tested a flu vaccine on volunteers that could work against all known strains of the illness.</p>
<p>The vaccine targets proteins inside the flu virus that are common across all strains, instead of those that sit on the virus&#8217;s external coat, which are liable to mutate, the Guardian said.</p>
<p>It is the first vaccine of its type to be tested on people infected with flu. The research was led by Dr Sarah Gilbert of Oxford&#8217;s Jenner Institute.</p>
<p>Adrian Hill, the institute&#8217;s director, told the Guardian: &#8220;The problem with flu is that you&#8217;ve got lots of different strains and they keep changing. Occasionally one comes out of wildfowl or pigs and we&#8217;re not immune to it. We need new vaccines and we can&#8217;t make them fast enough.&#8221;</p>
<p>Dr Gilbert added: &#8220;If we were using the same vaccine year in, year out, it would be more like vaccinating against other diseases like tetanus. It would become a routine vaccination that would be manufactured and used all the time at a steady level. We wouldn&#8217;t have these sudden demands or shortages &#8211; all that would stop.&#8221;</p>
<p>During the trial Dr Gilbert vaccinated 11 healthy volunteers and then infected them, along with 11 non-vaccinated volunteers.</p>
<p>She monitored the volunteers&#8217; symptoms twice a day, including runny noses, coughs and sore throats, and weighed tissues to calculate how much mucus they produced.</p>
<p>The vaccine boosts the number of the body&#8217;s T-cells, which are important to the body&#8217;s immune response, identifying and destroying cells infected by a virus.</p>
<p>The results, though only from a very small sample, showed the vaccine worked as planned with the vaccinated volunteers less likely to get flu and also showing a boost in T-cells.</p>
<p>The results have been sent to a scientific journal, with the next step a field trial to compare several thousand people.</p>
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