Influenza

Recommendations for Influenza Vaccine Composition

Southern hemisphere: 2003

It is recommended that vaccines to be used in the 2003 season (southern hemisphere winter) contain the following:

  • an A/New Caledonia/20/99(H1N1)-like virus
  • an A/Moscow/10/99(H3N2)-like virus*
  • a B/Hong Kong/330/2001-like virus**

* The widely used vaccine strain is A/Panama/2007/99.
** Some currently used vaccine strains are B/Shandong/7/97, B/Hong Kong/330/2001, B/Hong Kong/1434/2002.

(from Weekly Epidemiological Record,Vol.77, 41,2002)

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Vaccine Composition

  1. Southern hemisphere: 2010
  2. Northern hemisphere: 2009-2010
  3. Southern hemisphere: 2009
  4. Northern hemisphere: 2008-2009
  5. Southern hemisphere: 2008
  6. Northern hemisphere, 2007-2008
  7. Southern hemisphere: 2007
  8. Northern hemisphere: 2006-2007
  9. Southern hemisphere: 2006
  10. Northern hemisphere: 2005-2006
  11. Southern hemisphere: 2005
  12. Northern hemisphere: 2004-2005
  13. Southern hemisphere: 2004
  14. Northern hemisphere: 2003-2004
  15. Southern hemisphere: 2003
  16. Northern hemisphere: 2002-2003
  17. Southern hemisphere: 2002
  18. Northern hemisphere: 2001-2002
  19. Southern hemisphere: May-October 2001
  20. Northern hemisphere: 2000-2001
  21. Southern hemisphere: May-October 2000
  22. Northern hemisphere: November 1999 to April 2000
  23. Southern hemisphere 1999
  24. Northern hemisphere November 1998-April 1999