Dozens of manufacturers around the world make hundreds of millions of doses of flu vaccine every year. Most of those products are quadrivalent, meaning they target four types of influenza — the ...

Even though flu season doesn’t begin until the fall, major flu vaccine manufacturers say they plan to boost production by about 10 percent, to about 189 million doses, up from 170 million doses ...

The meeting offered a glimpse into how the new Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices will operate — and how federal vaccine policy is beginning to reflect Kennedy’s personal views.

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Indeed, had the pandemic begun earlier, in December or even January—when the World Health Organization made its determination of which flu strains to include in the routine seasonal flu vaccine ...

In June, the FDA recommended that Covid-19 vaccine manufacturers make single-strain booster shots for this fall and winter that would target the Omicron subvariant XBB.1.5.

The health secretary wrote a 2014 book arguing that thimerosal caused brain damage, a claim his own agencies say is unfounded.

Flu vaccine manufacturers are still preparing for next year’s flu season. In a statement, a spokesperson for Sanofi said it has “already begun production for the 2025-2026 flu season in the ...

A network of nascent vaccine manufacturers in low- and middle-income countries will soon start preliminary work to develop messenger RNA vaccines targeting the H5N1 bird flu virus, an effort that ...

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