US officials say âdonât panicâ over flu shot shortage
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Only a few companies produce the vaccine known as the flu shot. When the UK announced that one company - accounting for half of the vaccines needed in the US - was having its license suspended due to contamination concerns - it created immediate concern.
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The flu vaccine shortage that&#39;s stirred worries here and abroad could look mild compared to another public health crisis that might be waiting in the wings.
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U.S. health officials said Tuesday that they planned to steer scarce flu vaccine supplies to nursing homes, pediatricians and hospitals as the company that caused the disruptive shortage disclosed it was under ...
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WASHINGTON - The United States will receive some relief from its flu-shot shortage in the form of up to 4 million new doses, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Tuesday.
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The flu vaccine shortage the United States is experiencing demands that everyone remain calm and give those at highest risk of serious illness or death first chance in line.
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Americans are caught between worries  over the safety of the flu vaccine and fears that they will not  be able to get it when they need it, a health official told  Congress on Tuesday.
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U.S. health officials are talking  with several flu vaccine producers worldwide in hopes of  securing doses to protect millions left vulnerable when  manufacturing problems cost the country half its supply.
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US health officials received stunning news Tuesday. Half of the nation&#39;s ordered flu vaccine will not be received from the British company that produces it.
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While most of the country is in the midst of an influenza vaccine shortage, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued priorities for who should get immunized this flu
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NEW YORK - If the United States wants to avoid future shortages of flu vaccine it must take steps to draw drug companies back into the business of making the inoculations, flu experts say. In a bad year, the stakes could be higher than just saving people from fever, headaches and a runny nose...
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The closing of the Liverpool plant, announced last week, knocked out almost half the supply of US flu shots for this season and prompted US authorities to ask healthy people to forgo or delay inoculation.
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HONOLULU -- The Health Department is asking healthy adults not to get flu shots because of a drastic shortage of vaccine this year.
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A new strain of flu virus called "A California" will be added to the mix used in the U.S. vaccine for next season, which is already causing anxiety after a shortage in the current season.
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U.S. officials who just weeks ago worried that the nation's flu shot supply would run short said on Friday they are expanding the group of people who should get the vaccine so that doses do not go to waste.
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British health officials said Friday that their American counterparts were informed in mid-September that problems at a drug-manufacturing plant in northwest England could disrupt influenza vaccine supplies to ...
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The current US flu vaccine shortage shows perfectly how poorly the world is prepared to handle the next global epidemic of influenza, health experts said on Sunday.
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The sudden flu shortage in the United States has become a political issue, causing a headache for the Bush camp and a fever in the Kerry one.