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Friday, October 17, 1997 | return to: international
Israeli flu vaccine comes in nose drops
by JERUSALEM (JPS) -- Re-searchers have for the first time immunized a group of old people against the flu with nose drops containi, The clinical trials, on some 60 people at high risk for the flu, may eventually lead to an easy-to-use weapon against the diseas
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A California company named Aviron has developed a nose-drop flu vaccine, but with only "attenuated" (weakened) viruses rather than killed strains. Zakay-Rones maintained that killed-virus vaccines are safer.
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