New infections in the new world

... intrinsic property of microbes varying from one microbe type to another. The standard approach to this issue today is to develop new vaccines attacking the mutated strain the way it is done for the flu virus. However, accumulation of knowledge will, in future, provide opportunities to develop universal vaccines – either to attack the unchangeable parts of the microbe or to induce an immune response of a very broad range of action. The ageing developed world Over the last hundred years, life expectancy in industrially-developed countries has dramatically ...