Influenza Virus Vaccine for the 2001-2002 Season

2001/2002 Season Lot Release Status (as of December 18, 2001)
Flu vaccine lots that have been released by FDA and are available for distribution by the manufacturers.

For information on flu vaccine distribution schedules, please contact the manufacturers directly.

Manufacturer	Total Number of Lots Released by FDA
Fluzone Aventis-Pasteur Inc. (Connaught Laboratories, Inc.) Discovery Drive Swiftwater, PA 18370-0187 (800) 720-8972 fax: 888-889-7129	77
Fluvirin Evans Vaccines Limited 585 Science Drive Madison, WI 53711	26
Flushield Wyeth Laboratories, Inc. Wasp and Biddle Streets P.O. Box 354 Marietta, PA 17547-0354 (800) Flushield (800) 358-7443	58

The trivalent influenza vaccine prepared for the 2001-2002 season will include A/Moscow/10/99-like (H3N2), A/New Caledonia/20/99-like (H1N1), and B/Sichuan/379/99-like antigens. For the A/Moscow/10/99-like (H3N2) antigen, U.S. manufacturers will use the antigenically equivalent A/Panama/2007/99 (H3N2) virus. For the B/Sichuan/379/99-like antigen, they will use one of the antigenically equivalent viruses B/Johannesburg/05/99, B/Victoria/504/2000, or B/Guangdong/120/2000. These viruses will be used in manufacturing because of their growth properties and because they are representative of currently circulating influenza A (H3N2) and B viruses.