Inactivated flu vaccine linked to fewer medical visits than intranasal vaccine

Monday, March 2, 2009 - 11:35 in Health & Medicine

A study among U.S. military personnel finds that those who received a flu shot with the trivalent inactivated vaccine had fewer subsequent health care visits related to pneumonia and influenza than those who received an intranasal live attenuated influenza vaccine, according to a study appearing in the 4 March issue of JAMA, and being released early online with two other reports on drug-resistant influenza...

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