ONE OF the creators of the Oxford/AstraZeneca jab, professor Dame Sarah Gilbert, said her team was struggling to raise the money needed to develop vaccines against diseases already known about, yet alone those yet to emerge.

Dame Sarah said the Covid-19 pandemic should have taught us that vaccines must be stockpiled in case diseases mutated and became highly infectious. She said her work had gone "backwards" since the pandemic.

"We've actually gone backwards in terms of the work we're doing on development of vaccines for the outbreak pathogens before the pandemic," Gilbert said.

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