What’s New for the 2018–2019 Flu Season?

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• Corporate Authors:
  Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (U.S.)
• Description:
  For the 2018-2019 flu season: ; • Flu vaccines have been updated to better match circulating viruses the B/Victoria component was changed and the influenza A(H3N2) component was updated. ; • The nasal spray flu vaccine (live attenuated influenza vaccine or “LAIV”) is again a recommended option for influenza vaccination for people for whom it is otherwise appropriate. ; For more information, visit: www.cdc.gov/flu or www.flu.gov or call 1-800-CDC-INFO ; Last Updated August 31, 2018 ; CS HCVG-15-FLU-107 09/04/2018 ; whats-new-2018-2019-factsheet.pdf
• Subjects:
  • Influenza, Human/prevention & control
  • Influenza Vaccines
  • Vaccination
• Series:
  Fight Flu
• Document Type:
  Text
• Genre:
  Fact Sheet
• Pages in Document:
  2 unnumbered pages
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/59161/cdc_59161_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 245.12 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
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