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UW expert finds clue to how flu virus works

A University of Wisconsin-Madison researcher has shed light on how a flu virus copies itself into other cells.

That knowledge could be important in developing and mass-producing vaccines more quickly, which could be important in the event of a pandemic, the researcher said.

The discovery, made by Yoshihiro Kawaoka, a UW-Madison School of Veterinary Medicine professor, was reported in this week’s edition of the journal Nature.