Inovio Pharmaceuticals reports the publication of a paper that announces that their universal anti influenza vaccine has protected animal models against ALL strains of lethal influenza virus that infected people during the last 100 years.
The big question now is when will the vaccine be made legal to distribute?
Unlike with drugs, there is no P1, P2 and P3 study, because such a human study is deemed unethical. So, efficacy is deduced from animal models. We then need to examine the safety of the vaccine.
This vaccine is pure DNA so it does not have any killed virus particles. It does not need any adjuvant so there is no safety issue there either. And the method of using DNA vaccines have been tested in hundreds of people. It is safe. So, FDA, how about it? A safe vaccine that protects against all strains of influenza virus?
Disclosure: I own stock in Inovio.
Wednesday, January 24, 2018
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