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August 19, 2003
                			
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				FluMist: An Intranasal Live Influenza Vaccine
August 19, 2003 (Issue: 1163)
				FluMist (MedImmune), the first live-attenuated and first intranasally administered influenza vaccine, has been approved by the FDA to prevent influenza in healthy people 5-49 years old. Given as a nasal spray, it stimulates immunity by viral...more
        			
        			
				
				
        			
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