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What’s New for the 2017–2018 Flu Season?

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    Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
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    For the 2017-2018 flu season:

    • Only injectable flu shots are recommended for use again this season.

    • The H1N1 component of 2017-2018 flu vaccines was updated.

    • There is a quadrivalent recombinant influenza vaccine that is new for the 2017-2018 flu season. (Last season, only trivalent recombinant influenza vaccine was available.)

    • For the first time, a cell-grown H3N2 vaccine reference virus was used to produce the H3N2 component of the cell-based vaccine, Flucelvax. (The remaining Flucelvax vaccine components were manufactured using egg- grown reference viruses.)

    CS HCVG-15-FLU-107 10/30/2017

    whats-new-2017-2018-factsheet.pdf

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    Fight Flu
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    Fact Sheet
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    United States
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    2 unnumbered pages
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