The Medical Letter on Drugs and Therapeutics
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ISSUE 1163
ISSUE 1163
August 19, 2003
Issue 1163
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FluMist: An Intranasal Live Influenza Vaccine
August 19, 2003 (Issue: 1163)
FluMist (MedImmune), the first live-attenuated and first intranasally administered influenza vaccine, has been approved by the FDA to prevent influenza in healthy people 5-49 years old. Given as a nasal spray, it stimulates immunity by viral...more
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