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MedImmune begins shipping live intranasal flu vaccine for 2006-2007 after U.S. FDA release

Published in Lab Law Weekly, August 25th, 2006

MedImmune, Inc. (MEDI) announced that it is now shipping FluMist (influenza virus vaccine live, intranasal) to customers for the 2006-2007 influenza season. FluMist is MedImmune's live, attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV) approved for use in healthy individuals between 5 and 49 years of age..

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently released MedImmune's first lots of FluMist, allowing distribution to begin. MedImmune expects to have all lots of FluMist approved and released for commercial sale by late fall.

The CDC's ACIP recently expanded its original routine influenza vaccination guidelines to include household contacts of high-risk...

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