Influenza: Vaccination

(asked on 27th June 2018) - View Source

Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:

To ask the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, whether the NHS routinely provides a vaccine for Aussie flu.


Answered by
Steve Brine Portrait
Steve Brine
This question was answered on 4th July 2018

Each year, the World Health Organization monitor the circulation of the influenza virus and make a recommendation to vaccine manufacturers as to what particular strains to include in the vaccine that they produce.

All flu vaccines offered in England, both trivalent and quadrivalent, include the H3N2 sub-type. This was the sub-type that was predominantly circulating in Australia last year and has been labelled by some as 'Aussie flu'.

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