CDC: Tainted flu vaccine won&#39;t cause shortage
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US health officials said Friday they do not expect a flu-shot shortage in the wake of a leading flu vaccine maker&#39;s announcement that it would hold up millions of doses because several batches were contaminated.
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With the peak of the flu season approaching, many Americans who should have received vaccine shots have not yet been inoculated, federal officials reported Thursday.
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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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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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US health officials Monday denied reports that they knew before last week that there were major production problems with a key American manufacturer&#39;s flu vaccine, which
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The company that makes half the nation&#39;s supply, Chiron Corporation, has found four million tainted samples in its factory. It&#39;s postponing shipments of 50 million doses of vaccine until they&#39;re checked for safety.
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WASHINGTON -- Flu vaccine manufacturer Chiron has three weeks to respond to a Food and Drug Administration warning letter that alleges violations of FDA regulations at the company&#39;s plant in Liverpool, England, where contamination problems led to the US
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US Health and Human Services Secretary, Tommy Thompson, says the flu vaccine shortage is not a health crisis. At a press conference in Florida Monday, Thompson told seniors to stop waiting in long lines to get a shot.
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Federal health officials said Monday that senior citizens should not panic over the availability of flu vaccine because more doses soon will be shipped nationwide.
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Federal health officials said that senior citizens shouldn&#39;t panic over the availability of flu vaccine because more doses soon will be shipped nationwide.
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The Food and Drug Administration said yesterday that its investigators found contamination problems with the manufacturing process of MedImmune's nasal flu vaccine FluMist but that the finished product was not affected.
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The shortage of flu vaccine in the United States is &quot;not a health crisis,&quot; Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said, and he urged people to be patient as the government works to reallocate the nation&#39;s limited number of vaccines.
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The Food and Drug Administration uncovered contamination and unsanitary conditions at a British flu vaccine manufacturing plant in 2003 but failed to re-inspect it until similar problems caused the loss of half the U.S. vaccine supply in October, the top FDA official said Wednesday.
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The Food and Drug Administration said Monday the agency had no early indications that there were serious problems at a British vaccine company that was supposed to supply half of the U.S. flu vaccine.
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Last week, the Chiron Corporation, which manufactures close to half of America&#39;s influenza vaccine supply announced a delay in shipping its Fluvirin influenza virus vaccine, due to the possibility of contaminated doses.
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(CBS/AP) The flu vaccine shortage has set off a scramble to find ways to prevent any repetition of this year&#39;s calamity, which has restricted shots to those most at risk.
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This year&#39;s unexpected shortage of flu vaccine was a result of vaccine doses becoming contaminated during production. On October 5th, Chiron Corporation, a California-based biotechnology