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Nature 454, 160-161 (10 July 2008) | doi:10.1038/454160a; Published online 9 July 2008

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The contents of the syringe

Steven Salzberg1

  1. Steven Salzberg is at the Center for Bioinformatics and Computational Biology, 3125 Biomolecular Sciences Building, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742.

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The influenza vaccine failed this winter. Steven Salzberg suggests that future success relies on sharing data more widely and making the virus strain selection process more transparent.

During the past 50 years, the scientific community has studied the influenza virus in great detail, and has developed an effective vaccine that is administered widely each year. The vaccine contains isolates from each of the three strains commonly circulating in humans: H3N2, H1N1 and influenza B.

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