Money for Vaccinating Children Is Diverted, Officials Say
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The federal government is using money that was intended for vaccinating children to pay for experimental flu vaccines for adults, federal health officials said yesterday.
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Last year, dying children stood outside hospitals in northern India waiting for an empty bed during one of the worst encephalitis outbreaks in recent memory. Now, they're lining up again for hours to receive a shot that could save their lives.
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US health officials warned Tuesday of major flu shot shortages after British health officials abruptly pulled the license of the maker of half the US vaccine just as flu season was about to begin.
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WINNIPEG - A temporary shortage of a childhood vaccine has lead provincial health officials to delay booster shots for some children.
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Federal health officials on Wednesday said doctors should temporarily stop giving children the final booster shot of the Hib vaccine because of expected shortages caused by a recall.
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WASHINGTON -- The government warned on Tuesday of potentially life-threatening twisting of the intestines in infants vaccinated against a virus that is the leading cause of early childhood diarrhea.
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As the vaccine shortage hits home and long lines queue around the supermarket, a handful of states and the nation&#39;s capital are threatening doctors and nurses with fines or even jail
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The state has a surplus of 120,000 vaccines because even the people considered most vulnerable are forgoing the shots so there will be enough left for others.
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About 22.4 million doses of Aventis Pasteur flu vaccine that have not been shipped yet to customers will be redirected to public health departments, nursing homes and veterans hospitals to
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On the cusp of flu season, federal health officials are attempting an unprecedented redirection and rationing of the flu vaccine -- after a British regulatory agency abruptly
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A senator suggested Tuesday that money federal health officials have sought to upgrade flu vaccine production is on the way &#151; an effort to avoid another year like this one, when the United States lost nearly half its supply of vaccine.
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About 22.4 million doses of Aventis Pasteur flu vaccine that have not been shipped to customers will be redirected to public health departments, nursing homes and veterans hospitals to serve those most at risk, health officials said Tuesday.
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The federal government is using money that was intended for vaccinating children to pay for experimental flu vaccines for adults, federal health officials said Wednesday.
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Companies that make flu vaccines can  "borrow" U.S. government supplies of the shots to redistribute  under a new federal plan to deal with an initial immunization  shortage, officials said on Thursday.
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The vaccine is costly, and many say the rush toward mandatory inoculation could prove counterproductive.
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WASHINGTON -- This year's flu vaccine shortage could cost the nation up to $20 billion in lost productivity -- almost twice as much as in a typical year -- depending on the severity of the outbreak, according to one estimate.
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More than 3,000 people who volunteered to receive an experimental Merck and Co. AIDS vaccine are being told to come back and get extra tests because the jab may itself raise the risk of infection.