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Broadcast Date: Wednesday 4th October
2006
Summary: New protecting virus offers instant flu
protection and converts flu infections into their own
vaccines
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Professor Dimmock explains that they have been working on a natural product (protecting virus) that the viruses themselves make which is anti-viral. This can be used to prevent people from the disease.
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Professor Dimmock says that they have done all they can in the laboratory and now need to do human trials, but they need to raise the funds to do this.
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Professor Dimmock claims that the lab data is as good as it can be and they're confident that it works, but reiterates that they need to do human trials.
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Professor Dimmock explains that Influenza A viruses are really viruses of wild birds, particularly shore birds where they rarely cause illness. The danger arises when these move to domestic birds (different species) and it causes disease.
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Professor Dimmock explains that because influenza virus changes, vaccines are usually only effective for a year. He explains that "protecting virus" works instead at the heart of the virus and thus, they think, works against any influenza virus, unlike vaccines.
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Professor Dimmock explains that although the material is influenza virus, it is totally non-infectious and cannot make you ill.
