Influenza Virus Intranasal Vaccine

FluMist

FluMist is the product name of a nasal spray vaccine against the flu virus. It is the new type of flu vaccine that is given as a nasal spray. Flumist was originally developed by Hunein "John" Maassab, Professor of Epidemiology at the University of Michigan School of Public Health in Ann Arbor, Michigan and later by Aviron under the sponsorship of NIH in the mid-1990s. MedImmune, Inc. purchased Aviron in 2002, and Flumist was approved by the FDA in June of 2003 (Appleby, 2004) and was first m ...