Sentences with phrase «seasonal flu vaccines as»

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Even if you don't get a flu vaccine before October, as is considered ideal, public health officials recommend that everyone — including pregnant women in any trimester — aged 6 months and older, as well as those with compromised immune systems such as small children and the elderly, get their seasonal flu shots in order to protect both themselves and those around them.

After its latest battle with H1N1, a U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention committee recommended in February that everyone six months and older get the annual vaccine, a step that should improve immunity against future pandemics as well as seasonal cycles of the flu.

As the northern hemisphere braces itself for the flu season, and for the first time the US recommends flu vaccination for everyone over 6 months of age, Australia has confirmed that its main seasonal flu vaccine, Fluvax, caused convulsions in 99 children, all of whom recovered.

The responses of those given the quadrivalent vaccine were the same as those of volunteers who received the vaccine with two strains of A and the strain of B that matched the B strain in the 2012 - 2013 seasonal flu trivalent vaccine.

The vaccines targeted an influenza A H1N1 seasonal flu strain as well as A (H7N9), a virus considered to have the potential to trigger a human pandemic.

Bruce Gellin, director of the National Vaccine Program Office, added that he has «high expectations» that the shots will work without adjuvants, as seasonal flu vaccines do.

Scientists have identified a potential way to improve future flu vaccines after discovering that seasonal flu typically escapes immunity from vaccines with as little as a single amino acid substitution.