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Navy’s Global Engagement Helps Identify and Mitigate Disease
In support of the Military Health System, the Naval Medical Research Unit-2 is just one global entity that works with local partners to identify and combat global health threats.
There are some unique aspects to immunizing pediatric patients with seasonal influenza vaccine. Please find a summation below:
* All vaccines used by DOD are quadrivalent, made with the following strains of dead influenza virus: A/Michigan/45/2015 (H1N1) pdm09-like virus; A/Singapore/INFIMH-16-0019/2016 (H3N2)-like virus; B/Colorado/06/2017-like virus (B/Victoria/2/87 lineage); and B/Phuket/3073/2013-like virus (B/Yamagata/16/88 lineage).
Instructions on what to do if overvaccination is suspected
Thimerosal information: how it pertains to multidose vial vs. prefilled syringe
Find below all the relevant resource documents regarding immunizing children and adolescents with seasonal influenza vaccine.
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