The first doses of swine flu vaccine may all be the nasal spray version, government health officials said Friday.The government has said a trickle of vaccine will be available in early October, but on Friday they defined the size of that trickle-an estimated 3.4 million doses.
Currently it looks like all of them will be a nasal spray vaccine that is approved only for healthy people ages 2 to 49, said Dr. Jay Butler, an official with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.The nasal spray, called FluMist, is not recommended for some of the people most in danger of severe swine flu complications. That includes pregnant women, children younger than 2, and people with asthma and other chronic respiratory diseases...
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