2024 Flu Season

Flu Season is Coming!

The World Health Organisation has released its recommendations for the viral composition of influenza vaccines for the upcoming 2024 influenza season.
To coincide, early bird orders for 2024 influenza vaccines are now available.

Not sure how to submit your early bird order? Here's how:

1. Go to sssaustralia.com.au and log in to your account
2. Navigate to sssaustralia.com.au/flu, or click the banner in your dashboard
3. Add to cart the 2024 vaccines you would like to pre-order
4. Complete your basket (feel free to do this as a part of another order)
5. In the check out, in the order comments, let us know which month/s you would like your vaccines delivered, for example, if you ordered 10 boxes of 10, you may say “March: 2 boxes, April: 2 boxes, May: 6 boxes”
6. Place order (you won’t be charged until your vaccines are despatched)

The WHO recommends that trivalent vaccines for use in the 2024 southern hemisphere influenza season contain the following: 

Egg-based vaccines

• an A/Victoria/4897/2022 (H1N1)pdm09-like virus;
• an A/Thailand/8/2022 (H3N2)-like virus; and
• a B/Austria/1359417/2021 (B/Victoria lineage)-like virus.

Cell culture- or recombinant-based vaccines

• an A/Wisconsin/67/2022 (H1N1)pdm09-like virus;
• an A/Massachusetts/18/2022 (H3N2)-like virus; and
• a B/Austria/1359417/2021 (B/Victoria lineage)-like virus.

For quadrivalent egg- or cell culture-based or recombinant vaccines for use in 2024 southern hemisphere influenza season, the WHO recommends inclusion of the following B/Yamagata lineage component:

a B/Phuket/3073/2013 (B/Yamagata lineage)-like virus.