Most districts dip below the required 176 days. America's traditional 180-day school year is more myth than reality in Illinois, as a jumble of state laws, rules and waivers allow districts to chip away instruction time, shorten school hours and cut the number of days students come to school.
The influenza virus nasal vaccine is a live virus vaccine. Influenza virus vaccine is also available in an injectable form, which is a killed virus vaccine. Influenza virus nasal vaccine works by exposing you to a small dose of the virus, which helps your body to develop immunity to the disease.
The Fluzone Quadrivalent vaccine is licensed for adults, adolescents and children 6 months and older, and will be available in the upcoming 2013-2014 flu season, the company said on Monday. The 2013 influenza season will be the first when quadrivalent influenza vaccines will be available in the United States. Rival drugamker GlaxoSmithKline Plc in December won U.S. marketing approval for the first four-strain seasonal flu vaccine, called Fluarix Quadrivalent. The injectable vaccine, approved to immunize adults and children age 3 and older against flu virus subtypes A and B, is also slated for introduction in the 2013-14 flu season.