Influenza

Recommendations for Influenza Vaccine Composition

Northern hemisphere: 2000-2001

It is recommended that vaccines to be used in the 2000-2001 season (northern hemisphere winter) contain the following:

  • an A/Moscow/10/99 (H3N2)-like virus*
  • an A/New Caledonia/20/99 (H1N1)-like virus
  • a B/Beijing/184/93-like virus**

* A/Panama/2007/99 is an A/Moscow/10/99 (H3N2)-like virus.
**The most widely used vaccine strain is B/Yamanashi/166/98.

(from Weekly Epidemiological Record, Vol.75, 8, 2000 )

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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