Children who are given the FluMist nasal vaccine are 55 percent less likely to succumb to the flu than those who get the shot, according to a study in the New England Journal of Medicine today.

Funded by Gaithersburg?s MedImmune ? the maker of FluMist ? the St. Louis University study enlisted 8,475 children ages 6 months to 5 years in 16 countries.

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