The WHO annual consultation on the composition of influenza vaccines for the Southern Hemisphere, 2005 took place for the first time Canberra, Australia on the 21-23 September 2004. The following recommendations were made from this meeting.

It is recommended that vaccines to be used in the 2005 season (southern hemisphere winter) contain the following:

an A/New Caledonia/20/99(H1N1)-like virus;
an A/Wellington/1/2004(H3N2)-like virus;
a B/Shanghai/361/2002-like virus*

*Currently used vaccine viruses include B/Shanghai/361/2002, B/Jilin/20/2003 and B/Jiangsu/10/2003

For full details see: http://www.who.int/csr/disease/influenza/en/2005southinfluenza2.pdf