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Grace Nakamura and Emma Pollard

Australian-first universal flu vaccine trial begins at Brisbane's Mater Hospital

About 180 people at the Mater Hospital will take part in the flu vaccination trial. (ABC News: Michael Rennie)

Brisbane's Mater Hospital is starting trials on a universal flu vaccine that it hopes could do away with the need for yearly jabs.

Researchers at the Mater have launched a clinical trial of vaccine OVX836, which targets the internal nucleoprotein of the flu virus, the part that is less susceptible to mutations.

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