Today WHO recommended that next winter’s seasonal-flu vaccine include H1N1. Keiji Fukuda, WHO’s resident pandemic-flu expert, apparently cautioned in a press conference, however, that “[t]he inclusion of the H1N1 pandemic virus in the influenza vaccine does not signal that the pandemic is over.” WHO will meet next week to determine whether the pandemic is waning.
Here are the three viruses WHO recommended for the 2010/11 vaccine:
– an A/California/7/2009 (H1N1)-like virus;
– an A/Perth/16/2009 (H3N2)-like virus;*
– a B/Brisbane/60/2008-like virus.
* A/Wisconsin/15/2009 is an A/Perth/16/2009 (H3N2)-like virus and is a 2010 southern hemisphere vaccine virus.
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