[FITZ]

The spray vaccine, called FluMist and made by Gaithersburg, Maryland-based MedImmune Inc., is approved only for healthy people aged 5 to 49. It is not intended for the elderly, very young children and others at high risk of serious flu complications.

And isn't the reason for this restriction because this is a live virus? That seems like just a good way to spread the flu around --- the healthy person gets a little sick like they would if they actually caught the wild virus --- they pass it around to those who are immunocompromised. They wouldn't give the small pox vaccine for this very reason.

[philman_36]

And isn't the reason for this restriction because this is a live virus?
Doesn't the article say that those groups are simply persons "at high risk of serious flu complications/at high risk for complications from influenza"?
I don't see where it says the restriction is because it's a live virus.