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What to know as flu season gets underway

As flu season gets underway, researchers are also exploring whether flu vaccines could have uses beyond preventing influenza, including as a possible treatment for certain cancers.

Here & Now‘s Indira Lakshmanan speaks with Seattle-based pulmonologist Dr. Vin Gupta about flu season and early research into injecting flu vaccines directly into skin tumors.

This article was originally published on WBUR.org.

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