Now a brilliant team of medical researchers at Oxford University in the United Kingdom have had an unqualified success with a new vaccine that holds the promise of wiping out all forms of the influenza virus on the face of the Earth.

All previous flu vaccines rely upon proteins that sit on the outside of a flu virus (the H and N on strains such as H1N1 and H3N2) to encourage the immune system to create antibodies able to recognize and attack the invading virus. The weakness in that approach has always been the targeted proteins—they are dissimilar across different strains and may mutate making the vaccine in use ineffective.

The new process focuses exclusively on two proteins inside the virus that are virtually ubiquitous across all the influenza strains, even future mutations

This stunning breakthrough may also eliminate the need to research and develop treatments and vaccines for new types of flu. And the new vaccine will greatly reduce the expenditures that governments must allocate to protect their countries from virulent flu pandemics.