Vaccine Development Should Be Polytheistic, Not Monotheistic.

Clin Infect Dis

SETA Consulting, Chatham, Illinois, USA.

Published: December 2024

Vaccines based on messenger RNA technology have been tremendously successful, but their properties are not necessarily ideal for all pathogens. There is a risk that concentration on that technology alone for new vaccine development will ignore older technologies that have properties giving broader and more persistent protection.

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