Vaccination Against H1N1 Flu Also Protects From The 1918 Spanish Influenza

Vaccination Against H1N1 Flu Also Protects From The 1918 Spanish Influenza.
The H1N1 influenza vaccine distributed in 2009 also appears to shelter against the 1918 Spanish influenza virus killed more than 50 million kin nearly a century ago, creative probing in mice reveals. The finding stems from work funded by the US National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, part of the National Institutes of Health, which examined the vaccine's efficacy in influenza bulwark among mice.

And "While the reconstruction of the formerly dormant Spanish influenza virus was important in helping study other pandemic viruses, it raised some concerns about an undesigned lab release or its use as a bioterrorist agent," study author Adolfo Garcia-Sastre, a professor of microbiology at the Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York City, said in a mould scandal release. "Our research shows that the 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine protects against the Spanish influenza virus, an effective breakthrough in preventing another devastating pandemic like 1918". Garcia-Sastre and his colleagues surface their findings in the current issue of Nature Communications.