By Kesshia Peyton Anchor/Reporter
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Published: Mon, October 13, 2008 - 11:56 am
Last Updated: Mon, October 13, 2008 - 11:59 am
Kesshia Peyton
The vaccine is called Flu Blok.
It use recombinant DNA techniques. And researchers make DNA cause the viral protein to be synthesized in a cell line, and then they purify that viral protein from the cell line.
Flu Blok still needs to be approved by the Food and Drug Administration.
In a typical flu season, about 5 to 20 percent of Americans get the flu.
Annually, more than 200,000 people in the U.S. are hospitalized for flu complications and 36,000 die.
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