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Published online 27 January 2006 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news060123-15

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Quick vaccine gets off the starting blocks

Common cold helps grow swift protection against bird flu.

Researchers in the United States have unveiled a new, faster way to produce vaccines against a strain bird-flu virus. They claim that the technique can create a vaccine against a specific strain within 36 days.

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