EMA RELEASES FLU VACCINE ADVICE
April 14th, 2014THE EUROPEAN Union’s (EU) recommendations for next winter’s flu vaccine have been released by the European Medicines Agency (EMA). It said trivalent vaccines for the 2014/2015 season should contain strains of an A/California/7/2009 (H1N1)pdm09-like virus; an A/Texas/50/2012 (H3N2)-like virus; and a B/Massachusetts/2/2012-like virus. Quadrivalent vaccines containing two influenza-B viruses should also include a B/Brisbane/60/2008-like virus.
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