Chiron&#39;s Bad Case of the Flu
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In late September, Howard Pien, CEO of biotech Chiron (CHIR ), remarked to a Senate committee on aging that he was confident his company would be able to supply the US market with 47 million doses of flu vaccine.
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Oct 15, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - Federal health officials today ruled out using any of Chiron Corporation&#39;s influenza vaccine in the United States this year, following the completion of inspections at the company&#39;s plant in Liverpool, England.
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Considering the debacle with the flu vaccine, Chiron&#39;s (Nasdaq: CHIR) earnings release announcing that it beat analyst expectations is more than somewhat superfluous.
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Chiron Corp. was wrestling with bacterial contamination of flu vaccine at its Liverpool plant as early as March, and its finished vials began failing sterility tests nearly two months before the company warned
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The unexpected suspension of Chiron&#39;s production of flu vaccine created a sudden shortage of the supply available to Americans.
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It&#39;s the time of year when people start thinking about getting a flu shot. A manufacturing problem had delayed shipments intended to arrive over the summer.
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US health officials have confirmed that the entire stock of flu vaccine from a British producer is unusable. The US had hoped to salvage some of the doses made by Chiron, which account for nearly half of its annual supply.
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It's shaping up to be a bad flu season, and U.S. health officials say it's partly because the current vaccine doesn't protect against most of the spreading flu bugs. The flu shot is a good match for only about 40 percent of this year's flu viruses.
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As flu season neared in late September, the drugmaker at the center of the vaccine shortage radiated confidence. Only four weeks earlier, Chiron had surprised public
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Baby boomers, wash your hands and cover your mouths. The country's supply of vaccine for influenza, or the flu, was cut in half last week when CHIRON, an English company that makes flu vaccine, had its ...
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Today, we are announcing that none of the influenza vaccine manufactured by the Chiron Corporation for the US market is safe for use.
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The staggering loss of half the nation&#39;s flu vaccine supply has turned medical advice on its head: Healthy Americans should skip flu shots, the government is urging, but only so the sick and elderly can get theirs.
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WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration is unlikely to clear influenza vaccine made by Chiron Corp. as safe for Americans to use this flu season, Dr...
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The crisis in the nation's flu vaccine supply has led to renewed calls to modernize a half-century-old manufacturing system that relies on millions of chicken eggs and a lot of educated guesswork.    Because it takes at least six months to produce the annual flu vaccine, no manufacturer can replace the 46 million shots Chiron Corp...
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Chiron Corp., which makes nearly half the country&#39;s flu shots, announced Thursday some batches of the Fluvirin flu vaccine made in its England factory were found to be contaminated.
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The United States last night branded the entire flu vaccine output of a Liverpool factory unsafe for distribution. Inspectors from the US Food and Drug Administration have rejected all of the 48m doses at the plant, run by the Californian company Chiron.
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Forget about getting a flu shot this year unless you&#39;re at high risk of developing complications from the virus. Even then, it may be difficult to find the vaccine.