Assertion: flu vaccine | /r/CapableOf | protect person
Facets:
value: from flu illness
type: TRANSITIVE-OBJECT
Source sentences:
text: The ability of a flu vaccine to protect a person depends largely on the similarity or “match” between the viruses selected to make the vaccine and those spreading and causing illness.
text: NIAID supports and conducts research to develop vaccines against newly emerging influenza (flu) viruses, improve seasonal flu vaccines, and create a universal flu vaccine that would protect people against multiple flu strains, including potential pandemic strains, over multiple flu seasons.
text: At least two factors play an important role in determining the likelihood that flu vaccine will protect a person from flu illness: 1) characteristics of the person being vaccinated (such as their age and health), and 2) the similarity or “match” between the flu viruses the flu vaccine is designed to protect against and the flu viruses spreading in the community.