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Flu study to reduce spread of virus and boost immunity to it gets HK$50 million funding from Research Grants Council

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A study into ways to boost immunity to influenza and reduce its transmission has received HK$50 million funding from the Hong Kong government, the largest sum allocated to university research projects this year.“Hong Kong suffers an influenza epidemic every year, some years bigger, some years smaller, and we don’t really understand why,” said Professor Benjamin Cowling at the University of Hong Kong, who will lead the five-year study.“[We hope] we can have more advanced warnings of how serious…

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