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2001 JAN 17 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Aviron (AVIR) announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) accepted for review a Biologics License Application (BLA) for FluMist, an investigational intranasal influenza vaccine.
On October 31, 2000, Aviron submitted a BLA to the FDA seeking U.S. licensure of FluMist to prevent influenza in healthy children and healthy adults. The decision by the FDA to accept the submission for review was the next step in the regulatory process. If approved, FluMist would be the first flu vaccine delivered as a nasal mist to be commercially available in the U.S.
The BLA acceptance triggers a $15.5 million payment to Aviron from ...