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Thanks,

I guess I was thinking that if the FluMist was the preferred form, Dr Niman would have recommended that his daughter receive it?

Really good interview. Thanks for posting the link.

Question:

Is the following correct?

I thought I was hearing that the FluMist has the strain with the 225G polymorphism in it. Earlier you had written that they cloned a strain with the 225G in it, but it wasn't selected for the vaccines (because it wasn't the consensus strain).

So given the choice, one should choose the FluMist?

Then, shortly after that discussion, you said that you had a college-age daughter who was immunized at school with a shot in each arm for seasonal and H1N1.

So you wouldn't necessarily be recommending the FluMist in preference to the injected form?


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One minor correction to what you said in the interview:

The earliest known Texas cases were in the immediate San Antonio, Texas area in April 2009, but they were not students in the San Antonio school district.

They were students who attended Steele High School in the Schertz-Cibolo-United School District. They were treated at Randolph Air Force Base at a clinic from April 10-14. I don't know if either student was very ill, but it doesn't sound like they were if they were treated in a clinic.



Here's a link to the story from April:

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local_ ... xicos.html

Thanks,

If someone has receive an injected vaccine already, would it be possible to then get a FluMist form of vaccine after some time interval like a month, so that he would be protected against the
D225G variety?


I guess I was thinking that if the FluMist was the preferred form, Dr Niman would have recommended that his daughter receive it?

I have asked Dr. Niman about the injectable too, and no answer. I thought the same thing. So I guess he does not want to answer the question, apparently.

Will you please chill out and stop being so confrontational. It is getting OLD!