New study underscores FluMist safety

A new study in the Journal of the American Medical Association confirms that FluMist has proved safe among healthy people from the ages of 5 to 49. FluMist is a live, attenuated influenza vaccine administered as a nasal spray. Though it was approved two years ago, it has made only slow gains in the market--even during the flu vaccine shortage last year. But researchers now have 2.5 million instances where people have taken FluMist, allowing the new safety study to look for possible problems.

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