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
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
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