Viruses to fight other viruses: the influenza vaccine case.

Undoubtedly, vaccination is one of the health interventions showing major impact on humankind. Vaccines remain one of the most effective and safest ways to tackle infections. The current coronavirus pandemic is not an exception, and we all hope that ongoing international efforts will succeed in developing a vaccine soon. In this scenario, the present work published in this edition of EMBO Molecular Medicine by Demminger and colleagues (Demminger et al, 2020) is timeliness to exemplify the steps needed to develop effective vaccines.