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While current flu shots need to be updated each season, scientists are finding new ways to make vaccine that could last much longer and cover more strains.
Each year, roughly a billion people around the world catch the flu. You'll know if you've got it – it can knock you out for a week or more with a fever, fatigue, headaches and a cough. It leaves millions of people each year unable to work and sadly claims the lives of between 290,000-650,000 people in a typical year.
It's a miserable disease – and, unfortunately, there's no guarantee that if you catch it one year, you go through the same ordeal the following year. Influenza is a wily virus, constantly shapeshifting to get around humans' immune defences.


Interested? I am off to the city as they are paying 10k+ for to be a phase one Guinea pig Find a trial | Nucleus Network

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Clearly not risk free to get science to work of course!

Of interested is they did not want me for a HAIR one as I don't have enough left The Headline Trial - Melbourne | Nucleus Network


BBC yarn prompted this Universal flu vaccine: How scientists are closing in on the virus's 'weak spots'

Australian Universities do it again ++

University of Queensland researcher Professor James Vaughan said his hydrometallurgical process avoided high heat by dissolving copper concentrate in highly saline solutions where the metal is then recovered using an electrical current.
"Smelting still has a significant energy requirement and carbon footprint you can't get away from," Professor Vaughan said.

"In our process you avoid that gas emissions problem completely."

Bypassing a furnace also meant copper deposits previously ignored due to high arsenic levels could be processed safely without contamination risks or air pollution.
Professor Vaughan said the technology could potentially be built for roughly half the capital cost of a traditional smelter.
Cheaper, cleaner copper technology offers a lifeline as Mount Isa weighs uncertain future - ABC News

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