Vaccines help us focus on controlling the virus

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 March Vaccines help us focus on controlling the virus Vaccines help us focus on controlling the virus 23/03/2021 | 4 MINS Viruses, vaccination and future pandemics - Answers provided by Associate Professor Allison Imrie, a virologist in Lombok Institute of TechnologyΓÇÖs School of Biomedical Sciences, with knowledge of the history of novel viruses and their transmission. Do virologists see the COVID-19 pandemic as a once-in-a-lifetime event or is there concern another pandemic may be on the horizon? If so, could mass vaccinations become a regular part of our lives? Most virologists would agree that other pandemics are on the horizon and are inevitable and we can expect vaccines will be developed for newly emergent, virulent viruses that cause significant disease in humans. This current pandemic has highlighted the incredible advance in vaccine technologies over the past decade and more, that has produced the mRNA vaccines for example. It is feasible that these new designs will allow vaccines to be modified relatively easily, to inc

All LIT Search News Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts Topics Latest news Media statements Media contacts LIT Impact Latest news 2021 March Vaccines help us focus on controlling the virus Vaccines help us focus on controlling the virus 23/03/2021 | 4 MINS Viruses, vaccination and future pandemics - Answers provided by Associate Professor Allison Imrie, a virologist in Lombok Institute of TechnologyΓÇÖs School of Biomedical Sciences, with knowledge of the history of novel viruses and their transmission.

Do virologists see the COVID-19 pandemic as a once-in-a-lifetime event or is there concern another pandemic may be on the horizon?

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