{"id":897167,"date":"2026-09-15T23:00:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-15T23:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/897167\/"},"modified":"2026-09-15T23:00:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-15T23:00:11","slug":"muhc-researchers-expose-volunteers-to-influenza-for-vaccine-research","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/897167\/","title":{"rendered":"MUHC researchers expose volunteers to influenza for vaccine research"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In an effort to advance vaccine research and strengthen pandemic preparedness, researchers in Montreal and Halifax are exposing healthy volunteers to influenza in a carefully-controlled study.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The McGill University Health Centre described the study \u2014 which began in June in Halifax and last week in Montreal \u2014 as a Canadian first. It aims to establish a research model that could accelerate the evaluation of future influenza vaccines. <\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Volunteers will be exposed to a precise dose of the virus and closely followed to determine \u201cwho becomes infected, how much virus they shed and how their immune systems respond,\u201d the MUHC said in a press release. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"In an effort to advance vaccine research and strengthen pandemic preparedness, researchers in Montreal and Halifax are exposing&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":897168,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[49,48,84,224798],"class_list":["post-897167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-health","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-health","tag-mcgill-university-health-centre-muhc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897167","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=897167"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/897167\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/897168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=897167"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=897167"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=897167"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}