Some Suppliers Jack Up Flu Vaccine Price
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With many health care facilities struggling to find flu vaccine, some small suppliers have capitalized on the acute shortage by demanding as much as 10 times the usual price.
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A Canadian company is offering to sell 1.2 million doses of surplus flu vaccine to the United States as Americans continue to flood across the border for shots.
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Aventis Pasteur, the world&#39;s largest flu vaccine manufacturer and the sole supplier of flu shots to the USA this year, will begin preparing for year-round production under a $10
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ID Biomedical Corp. signed long-term agreements with three of the largest US flu vaccine wholesalers, causing the firmâs shares to climb 9.2 percent.
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Oct. 14, 2004 - Caught off-guard by a last-minute flu vaccine shortage, hospitals and health officials are grappling with a side-effect perhaps more virulent than the bug itself: price gouging.
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A shortage of flu vaccine has led to lines for injections while the authorities are battling to halt price gouging for the vaccines available.
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TORONTO -- Canadian health authorities have purchased an extra 145,000 doses of flu vaccine and are negotiating with a foreign supplier to import more if this season&#39;s high demand threatens to outstrip supplies.
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People who buy bottles of Honest Tea have sometimes been moved to offer its manufacturer a lot more than $1.49.
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Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed suit this week against two distributors of the flu vaccine for allegedly charging exorbitant prices to hospitals in Houston, Dallas and Sherman, in violation of state law.
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Caught off-guard by a last-minute flu vaccine shortage, hospitals and health officials are grappling with a side-effect perhaps more virulent than the bug itself: price gouging.
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Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed a lawsuit Thursday against two flu shot distributors, accusing them of offering the vaccine to hospitals in Houston, Dallas and Sherman at prices inflated up to 1,000 percent.
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The government is purchasing as many as 5 million additional doses of flu vaccine from plants in Canada and Germany to help relieve the U.S. shortage.
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US officials may have to step up efforts to recruit flu vaccine suppliers for next year amid new concerns that Chiron may not restart production in time.
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Attorneys general in Connecticut and Texas have filed suit against ASAP Meds Inc. of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., for flu-vaccine price gouging.
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In October and November Americans stood in line for hours to get one of the precious few flu shots. But now that more vaccine is available &#151; with a few million more doses expected from British and German suppliers &#151; demand is dwindling.
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With flu season around the corner, local providers of influenza vaccines learned recently that supplies will likely have to be rationed because a major producer
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WASHINGTON Dec 6, 2004 - The government is purchasing additional doses of flu vaccine from a foreign manufacturer to help relieve the US shortage.