In quest to construct a better flu shot, scientists zero in on tiny flu protein shaped like a mushroom

Not long after the first flu shot was introduced in 1945 by University of Michigan virologist Thomas Francis and his co-researcher, Jonas Salk (who would later garner worldwide fame as developer of the first polio vaccine), scientists were on a decades-long quest to produce a better flu shot.

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