The flu (influenza) vaccine you get at your doctor’s office or pharmacy is the result of year-round work of highly skilled microbiologists, epidemiologists, physicians, and other public health experts. Sound complicated? It is.
As new strains of flu viruses emerge, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration closely coordinates with sister agencies and works with manufacturers to help the development of vaccines to protect from the flu, a disease that can cause severe illness.
The FDA and other parts of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services are working to advance the development of new technologies for producing flu vaccines so we can better respond to influenza public health emergencies. All FDA-approved flu vaccines have been evaluated and determined to be safe and effective by the FDA.
There is often more than one type of flu virus circulating each season. So, vaccines are made to target the most likely viruses to circulate and cause illness in the U.S. during the upcoming flu season.
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Source: FDA; Courtesy of Drugs.com
