Flu vaccine: Rice study predicts 2018 flu shot will have 20 percent efficacy
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A Rice University study predicts that this fall's flu vaccine - a new H3N2 formulation for the first time since 2015 - will likely have the same reduced efficacy against the dominant circulating strain of influenza A as the vaccine given in 2016 and 2017 due to viral mutations related to vaccine production in eggs. ["]
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