Current guidelines call for annual flu vaccinations for everyone 6 months of age and older. How effective the vaccines are each year depends on how well they match the circulating virus, the CDC said. Preliminary estimates show last season people who were vaccinated against the flu were 40%-70...
All vaccines in the 2022-2023 flu season were quadrivalent, meaning they targeted 4 strains of the flu, 2 type A flu viruses (H1N1 and H3N2) and 2 type B flu viruses (Victoria and Yamagata lineage) and were well-matched to the circulating viruses. Each year, flu viruses may mutate, mea...
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommends that quadrivalent vaccines to be used in the 2024-2025 influenza season (northern hemisphere winter virus) contain the following: an A/Victoria/4897/2022 (H1N1)pdm09-like virus an A/Thailand/8/2022 (H3N2)-like virus a B/Austria/1359417/2021 (B...
The U.S. and other countries' populations need to be better educated about vaccines; at least they should realize that safe vaccines have been around for many years (measles, mumps, chickenpox, and even a vaccine for cholera), and as adults they often have to get a vaccine-like shot to...
A compromised immune system due to cancer, HIV, or other conditions Is one type of vaccine better than another? The CDC doesn’t recommend any one vaccine over another for the 2024-2025 flu season. But some vaccines may only be approved for certain age groups. If you’re unsure, ask you...
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Early estimates on the effectiveness of this year’s flu vaccines indicate they may be less effective at preventing hospitalization than in years past, based on data from South America, where the annual flu season occurs earlier. According to a report fr
2 The vaccine for the 2022-2023 season has been updated with a different H3N2 strain to better match circulating illness.3 For pediatric vaccination timing, ACIP recommends that most children who only need a single dose receive vaccines in September or October. However, unlike most adults,...
Experts who advise the Food and Drug Administration on vaccine-related issues voted unanimously on Tuesday to recommend that the FDA approve trivalent flu vaccines for the 2024-2025 season, instead of the quadrivalent, or four-in-one, shots that have been the industry standard for the past decad...