3. Influenza vaccination: updated recommendations for the 2016-17 season
Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) makes 2016-17 recommendation against the live attenuated influenza vaccine (LAIV4), and changes to recommendations for people with egg allergy.
Key recommendations
Routine annual vaccination is recommended for everyone aged ≥6 months without contraindications.
Inactivated influenza vaccines (IIVs) will be available in both trivalent (IIV3) and quadrivalent (IIV4) formulations.
Recombinant influenza vaccine (RIV) will be available in a trivalent formulation (RIV3).