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Article: FDA recommends changes for next flu vaccine.(NEWS)(United States Food and Drug Administration)
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- Internal Medicine News
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- March 15, 2009
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SILVER SPRING, MD. -- The influenza B strain in the current influenza vaccine in the United States should be replaced for the 2009-2010 influenza vaccine, according to a preliminary recommendation by a federal advisory panel, which based its decision on data on circulating viruses collected to date during the 2008-2009 influenza season.
The Food and Drug Administration's Vaccines and Related Biological Products Advisory Committee voted at a February meeting in favor of replacing the current B vaccine component, a B/Florida/4/2006-like virus (a B/Yamagata lineage virus), with a B/Brisbane/60/2008-like virus (a B/Victoria lineage virus).
The panelists ...