Nutrition and immunity could be key in event of vaccine shortage

Evidence was presented, at a joint symposium of the Royal Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain, Academy of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Nutrition  Society, Food and Health Section of the Royal Society of Medicine, for  the use of a novel nutritional supplement as an effective  immune-modulator for protection from bacterial and viral infection.

The meeting aimed to uncover how biologically-active compounds in some  foods and drinks might explain their claimed health benefits.

In a paper by Paul Clayton, outgoing chairman of the Food and Health  Section of the RSM entitled Pandemics and Herd Immunity, the phenomenon  of the super-sterile modern urban environment was shown to have  potentially compromised people's natural "herd innate immunity" to  infection.