Does surviving swine flu super-charge your immunity?
Posted by Andrew on January 16th, 2011
Researchers studying nine patients who survived swine flu during the H1N1 pandemic have noticed that they produced a wide range of antibodies that could be used to fight off other strains.
Currently they’re looking to see if they can use this to make a universal vaccine that could fight off any type of influenza – even the ones we’re most concerned about here on Weird Things:
We’ll keep our fingers crossed and hope it doesn’t give us an immunity to the bad-ass day walker virus.
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