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Vaccination four ways

Typically, a
vaccine for only one or two strains of a virus can be given at a time because the immune system will ignore any additional strains. Using mathematical models, though, one team has found that injecting the different strains into different parts of the body (as shown above) generates responses from different lymph nodes and helps eliminate this problem. Credit: Sebastian Kaulitzki/shutterstock

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