Chiron&#39;s Public Health Disaster
123757
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.
743747
West Nile virus, an-encephalitis-like illness carried through the bite of mosquitoes, was the scourge of America&#39;s east coast a few short years ago.
351904
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...
510472
Nearly everyone seemed to have been caught off-guard last month when a British flu vaccine manufacturer was closed down by authorities because of contamination that was discovered at the company&#39;s Liverpool plant.
581923
It&#39;s not often that the head of a drug company says something that leads newscasts all over the country, but a recent announcement affected millions of consumers and doctors.
435096
The Chiron Corporation said yesterday that it had received a warning letter from the Food and Drug Administration demanding more information about the company&#39;s plans to fix widespread sanitary
200299
The recall of Vioxx--an arthritis treatment taken by millions of people--is a disaster for everyone. Of course it&#39;s bad news for Merck (nyse: MRK - news - people), the drug&#39;s maker.
32883
Chiron Corp. CHIR.O has won a  contract to develop a human vaccine against a strain of bird  flu that can infect people and "has the potential to trigger a  modern-day pandemic," the U.S. government said on Tuesday.
256905
WASHINGTON Nov 15, 2004 - Chiron Corp. has asked British regulators to inspect its facility producing an experimental bird flu vaccine to make sure it doesn&#39;t run into the same contamination problems that
362295
Production breakdowns at Chiron Corp.'s manufacturing plant in Great Britain meant the U.S. Food and Drug Administration could not guarantee the safety of any of the company's flu vaccine this year, the ...
366897
Editor&#39;s Note: Published on page A19 of the Nov. 23, 2004 issue of the Philippine Daily Inquirer. This was the Department of Health&#39;s advice yesterday to the public over the
178668
All of Chiron Corp.&#39;s flu vaccine lots in the UK, where the company&#39;s plant was shut down by regulators, are unsafe, said Lester Crawford, acting commissioner of the US Food and Drug Administration.
326621
Chiron Corp. , which had to scrap its flu vaccine this season due to contamination, said on Friday it has received a warning from US regulators in connection with its shuttered vaccine manufacturing plant in England.
141991
Federal health authorities plan to supply California with at least half the doses the state government ordered from Chiron Corp., the East Bay company whose factory in England was shut down by British drug regulators last week.
164503
Shares of Chiron Corp. CHIR.O fell 7  percent before the market open on Friday, a day after the  biopharmaceutical company said it is delaying shipment of its  flu vaccine, Fluvirin, because lots containing 4 million  vaccines do not meet product sterility standards.
444697
SAN FRANCISCO - The nation's supply of vaccine for the impending flu season took a big hit Thursday when Chiron Corp. announced it had found tainted doses in its factory...
356640
A grand jury subpeona for records about its flu vaccine points to possible criminal violations. Next: A flood of civil suits. Over the last year-and-a-half, Chiron (CHIR ) had been making strides in reinventing itself.