Comments on: Strain Game: My piece on bird flu, terrorism, and open science in Slate http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/12/22/strain-game-my-piece-on-bird-flu-terrorism-and-open-science-in-slate/ A blog about life, past and future. Written by DISCOVER contributing editor and columnist Carl Zimmer. Sat, 26 May 2012 01:25:59 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Daniel J. Andrews http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/12/22/strain-game-my-piece-on-bird-flu-terrorism-and-open-science-in-slate/comment-page-1/#comment-70137 Daniel J. Andrews Tue, 27 Dec 2011 16:03:03 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=5336#comment-70137 A slightly off-topic question. I was reading in Nature that people who had come down with the flu in the 2009/10 pandemic had produced antibodies that were effective against all 16 strains of influenza A. These antibodies are being examined as a way to make a more inclusive flu vaccine. My question is, if you were inoculated against the 2009/10 strain so you didn't actually catch the flu, would you still produce the same more inclusive antibodies? Or are those antibodies only produced by people who caught the flu? A slightly off-topic question. I was reading in Nature that people who had come down with the flu in the 2009/10 pandemic had produced antibodies that were effective against all 16 strains of influenza A. These antibodies are being examined as a way to make a more inclusive flu vaccine.

My question is, if you were inoculated against the 2009/10 strain so you didn’t actually catch the flu, would you still produce the same more inclusive antibodies? Or are those antibodies only produced by people who caught the flu?

]]> By: David B. Benson http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2011/12/22/strain-game-my-piece-on-bird-flu-terrorism-and-open-science-in-slate/comment-page-1/#comment-69887 David B. Benson Sat, 24 Dec 2011 03:51:37 +0000 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/?p=5336#comment-69887 Varl Zimmer --- Maybe now a review of Eugene V. Koonin's (difficult) book, "The Logic of Chance"? I found it both hard going and fascinating reading; talk about viruses (veri?) Varl Zimmer — Maybe now a review of Eugene V. Koonin’s (difficult) book, “The Logic of Chance”?

I found it both hard going and fascinating reading; talk about viruses (veri?)

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