Flu shot shortage &#39;not a health crisis&#39;
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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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With the peak of the flu season approaching, many Americans who should have received vaccine shots have not yet been inoculated, federal officials reported yesterday.
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Injecting flu vaccine in a different way could at least double the number of people afforded protection. But they&#39;re not the people who need it most, and the technique
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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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Oct. 8, 2004 -- Government health officials and vaccine manufacturers warn that they can do little to ease the expected widespread flu shot shortages announced earlier this week.
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Flu shots are still in high demand around Alabama, especially in the state&#39;s less populated areas. Places like Eufaula haven&#39;t received as many shots as they had hoped for.
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TAMPA, Fla. -- Don&#39;t panic; there&#39;s no need for seniors to wait in long lines for flu shots. That&#39;s the message from US Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson.
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A severe vaccine shortage has turned the flu shot into a hot item that&#39;s hard to find in Central New York. Public flu shot clinics are drawing larger than normal crowds even though the flu season hasn&#39;t started yet.
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The 2004-05 flu season is starting slower than last year&#39;s, easing some fears about the nation&#39;s shortage of flu vaccine. The federal Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said 29
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Some Nova Scotian&#39;s won&#39;t be getting their flu shots this year due to a shortage of vaccine. The Victorian Order of Nurses has been holding immunization clinics in workplaces around the province.
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With an impending shortage of influenza vaccine nationwide, Utah doctors say they can&#39;t afford to give into arm-twisting from patients who want flu shots but don&#39;t fall into high-risk categories.
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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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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 effects of an unprecedented shortage of flu vaccine continued to ripple Wednesday, leaving the status of the area&#39;s scheduled flu shot clinics unknown.
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WASHINGTON - 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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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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HALIFAX - Healthy Nova Scotians can still get flu shots, contrary to an earlier warning that the immunizations would be given only to high-risk patients because of fears of a vaccine shortage.