Hong Kong health chiefs and local doctors said on Tuesday that the city’s flu vaccinations should still be effective, despite the shots containing a different strain to the one most recently recommended by the global health watchdog.
The World Health Organisation announced last Thursday that the vaccine strain to be used against influenza A H3N2 for the southern hemisphere next year had been changed to the Singapore strain.
The Hong Kong strain is found in the city’s 460,000 doses...
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