World’s best flu jab?
In Adelaide researchers have started trials on, what they claim is, the world’s best Influenza and Bird Flu protection.
The reason for the breakthrough is the added natural sugar adjuvants to the vaccine. Adjuvants amplify the immune system’s response to the virus to increase the effectiveness of vaccines.
Team leader Director of Diabetes and Endocrinology Professor Nikolai Petrovsky says the sugar-based adjuvant is safe:
“Our data already shows our adjuvant enhances the immune response against the common flu virus and we expect it to work equally well for an avian (bird) flu vaccine,”
