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Even after leading the charge combating the worst pandemic in a century, vaccine researcher Kathrin Jansen doesn’t feel that she can relax. Another pandemic — this one based on an influenza virus — is inevitable, Jansen said at the annual STAT Summit on Tuesday.

With the left, their alarms are actually threats.

[DoodleBob]

Jansen was born in East Germany, but moved to West Germany at age 2. Even as a child she exhibited a keen interest in the natural world, and a tendency to “bring home all kinds of creatures,” she has recalled. As a young scientist at Merck, she focused on a vaccine against HPV, the leading cause of cervical cancer. Her colleagues gave the work a 10% chance of success, but Jansen persevered. Gardasil, approved by the FDA in 2006, is 100% effective against HPV.

COVID AND HPV. She's a real piece of...work.