One third of Americans worried out flu vaccine crisis
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A poll carried out by the Associated Press reveals that 34% of Americans with a high-priority flu vaccine need relative are worried about the present flu vaccine crisis that has hit the USA.
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Millions of Americans, frightened off by news reports of long lines or discouraged by their own failed attempts, have given up on getting flu shots this year, U.S. health officials said on Thursday.
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Americans' supply of flu vaccine was abruptly cut in half Tuesday, prompting the government to ask most healthy adults to delay or skip flu shots so that the elderly and others most at risk from influenza can get scarce supplies.    British regulators unexpectedly shut down a major flu-shot supplier Tuesday, prompting a record shortage in this country just as flu season is about to begin...
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Prioritizing flu shots for those most in need is proving difficult as inventories of hospitals, nursing homes and individual physicians are surveyed in the Washington region.
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Concerned health officials began investigating on Friday what went wrong at a British vaccine plant where half the U.S. flu shots were made, and called on more companies to get into the vaccine business.
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NEW YORK - For the second year in a row, the US may face a profound shortage of flu vaccine. As a result of manufacturing problems, the biotech company that makes half of the flu shots needed in the US said it could not deliver any vaccine at all.
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In early October, we received the news. Half of the flu vaccine supply to the United States would not be distributed this year. And we all witnessed what happened during ensuing days.
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The lack of available flu vaccine in US this flu season means a substantial portion of the population will not be protected against influenza infection.
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Fewer than half of Americans plan to get the flu vaccine this year, mostly because they do not worry about flu, according to a survey published on Wednesday.
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There are concerns in at least two US cities that residents who thought they were getting flu shots may have been injected with something else.
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Two months ago throughout the United States, people waited in line for hours just to get a flu shot. Now that the supply of vaccine has broadened, it seems few people are still waiting, the Associated Press reported.
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The influenza vaccine given to Americans may not protect as well as expected, U.S. health officials said on Friday as the number of flu cases increased nationwide.
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Unlike last year when health officials urged more people to get flu vaccines, authorities are asking the public to save the supplies for those most at risk after half of the nation&#39;s anticipated supply of vaccine became unavailable last week.
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With the nation facing a vaccine shortage, an uncertain allocation of prevention - who will get a shot and who will not - began in earnest.
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With nearly half the nationâs supply of flu vaccine quarantined, where can Americans find the doses that are available? Health officials urge them not to even try unless they fall into one of the groups at risk of serious illness from flu.
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PARIS While patients are panicking over a shortage of flu vaccines in the United States, vaccination programs in the rest of the world are progressing normally with a good supply of medicine, health authorities say.
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A federal advisory panel in the US is worried that tens of thousands of flu shots will go to waste and is recommending the government ease restrictions on the current supply of flu vaccine.