FluMist Rejuvenated With CDC Advisory Panel Endorsement; Effectiveness Data Still To Come

US panel votes 12 to 2 to recommend use of nasal vaccine, which has been reformulated to include a new influenza A strain.

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AstraZeneca is feeling much better, thank you.

Two years after recommending that AstraZeneca PLC's FluMist (quadrivalent live attenuated influenza vaccine, LAIV4) not be used, an advisory panel of the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has decided to re-endorse it despite the lack of data on its effectiveness.

At its Feb. 21 meeting, CDC's Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) voted 12 to 2 to back use of...

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