The nasal spray option could encourage more people who have fears of doctors or needles to inoculate themselves against the ...

FluMist is the only nasal flu vaccine, but it is not new. The FDA approved it in 2003 for people 5 to 49 years old before ...

You may report side effects related to AstraZeneca products. FLUMIST is a live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV), which is administered as a nasal spray for the prevention of influenza. FLUMIST is ...

FluMist, a needle-free nasal spray influenza vaccine, has been approved by the FDA for self-administration in the US, making ...

Related: How FluMist Nasal Flu Vaccine Works FluMist Quadrivalent is a live attenuated single-dose nasal spray that protects against two strains of influenza A and two strains of influenza B.

Flu shots are now available in area doctors offices and pharmacies. It's hard to believe we are just a few weeks away from ...

The CDC just released data that show a lot of children died of the flu last year. Here's what doctors recommend.

Options include inactivated influenza vaccine, recombinant influenza vaccine, or live attenuated influenza vaccine. Different vaccines can be licensed for different age groups, and some vaccines ...

The isolation of influenza virus 80 years ago in 1933 very quickly led to the development of the first generation of live-attenuated vaccines. The first inactivated influenza vaccine was ...

A recent PLoS Pathogens study evaluates the efficacy of a newly developed live-attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) protocol in eliciting immune responses in a porcine animal model. Study ...

the other is a live-attenuated vaccine first developed by Albert Sabin. In addition to polio and typhus, killed vaccines are used to prevent influenza, typhoid, and rabies.

The first influenza vaccine was a monovalent live-attenuated vaccine, which was used in Russia until recently. In 1940, a second strain of influenza virus was isolated; this was named influenza B ...