{"id":3554,"date":"2025-05-03T23:04:13","date_gmt":"2025-05-03T23:04:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/03\/nih-500-million-univeral-flu-vaccine-project-uses-old-technology\/"},"modified":"2025-05-03T23:04:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-03T23:04:13","slug":"nih-500-million-univeral-flu-vaccine-project-uses-old-technology","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/2025\/05\/03\/nih-500-million-univeral-flu-vaccine-project-uses-old-technology\/","title":{"rendered":"Scientists question NIH project\u2019s use of 20th century technology to make a universal flu vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    Scientists question NIH project\u2019s use of 20th century technology to make a universal flu vaccine<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    <!-- no image --><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>When word broke this week that the Department of Health and Human Services was investing half-a-billion dollars on a National Institutes of Health project to develop a vaccine platform for pathogens that could trigger pandemics, a number of scientists who work in the field of vaccinology had decidedly mixed feelings.<\/p>\n<p>That HHS and NIH are going to continue to invest in efforts to make vaccines that could reduce the impact of future pandemics was good news, many thought. But why spend so much money on using whole killed viruses \u2014 an approach pioneered in the last century \u2014 as the basis of the vaccines?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/05\/03\/nih-500-million-univeral-flu-vaccine-project-uses-old-technology\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Read the rest\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><br \/>\n    Helen Branswell<br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n<BR><\/BR><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2025\/05\/03\/nih-500-million-univeral-flu-vaccine-project-uses-old-technology\/?utm_campaign=rss\">Go to statnews<\/a><br \/>\n \t<BR><br \/>\n <BR><\/BR><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scientists question NIH project\u2019s use of 20th century technology to make a universal flu vaccine When word broke this week that the Department of Health and Human Services was investing half-a-billion dollars on a National Institutes of Health project to develop a vaccine platform for pathogens that could trigger pandemics, a number of scientists who [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2552,1428,2147,2179,2148,2144,2195],"tags":[2150],"class_list":["post-3554","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-h5n1-bird-flu","category-health","category-hhs","category-infectious-disease","category-nih","category-politics","category-vaccines","tag-statnews"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3554"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3554\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3554"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3554"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mailitics.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3554"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}