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The Australian Influenza Vaccine Committee (AIVC) met on 4 October 2006, and agreed to adopt the September World Health Organization recommendations.
The AIVC decided that the influenza vaccine components for the 2007 Southern Hemisphere season should contain the following:
| A (H1N1) | A/New Caledonia/20/99 (H1N1) - like strain.
A/New Caledonia/20/99 (IVR-116) is recommended as a suitable vaccine strain. |
15 µg HA per dose |
|---|---|---|
| A (H3N2) | A/Wisconsin/67/2005 (H3N2) - like strain.
A/Wisconsin/67/2005 (NYMCX-161B) or A/Hiroshima/52/2005 (IVR-142) are also recommended as suitable vaccine strains. |
15 µg HA per dose |
| B | B/Malaysia/2506/2004 - like strain. | 15 µg HA per dose |
This report was published in Communicable Diseases Intelligence Vol 31 No 2, June 2007.
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