Is There a Universal Flu Vaccine?

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One of the things that looks quite exciting is the possibility of a universal flu vaccine. This autumn, we did see something that looked incredibly promising using an mRNA vaccine. There's another trial starting this year for Epstein-Barr virus which itself is not something that you probably wouldn't necessarily notice that you've been infected. But there has been new work showing it could be an important trigger for MS developing further down the line.

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