HHS: More flu shots from abroad unlikely
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Don&#39;t expect imports of flu shots from Canada or other countries to ease the crippling shortage, the nation&#39;s health secretary cautioned Thursday.
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A day after a leading flu vaccine maker warned that it would hold up millions of doses because several batches were contaminated, US health officials said yesterday they do not expect a flu-shot shortage.
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Dec 7, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - The federal government is buying 1.2 million doses of flu vaccine made in Germany to augment the strained US supply, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today.
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Shipment of nearly half of the vaccine needed to protect Americans from flu this season -- about 48 million doses -- has been blocked by health authorities in England where it was manufactured
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With federal public health officials scrounging for more influenza vaccine, a drug company announced Tuesday that it would supply an additional 2.6 million flu shots - though the doses will not be available until January.
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ATLANTA -- The nation&#39;s health department is checking companies in Canada and Germany that may be able to provide 5 million flu shots.
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WASHINGTON - It is unlikely that any of the nearly 50 million doses of influenza vaccine being held at a plant in England will be found safe and released to the United States, the head of the Food and Drug Administration said Friday.
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VANCOUVER - Vancouver-based ID Biomedical has decided not to sell 1.2 million flu shots to the US after all - and will keep the vaccine in Canada, at the request of the federal government.
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There&#39;s no need to panic about flu shots, two federal health officials reassured the public Tuesday. More vaccine is coming to ensure that most people at high-risk of getting the flu with get vaccinated, they said.
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Drug companies will not be able to make enough vaccine to prevent the next global flu pandemic, which health officials fear may be triggered by a viral strain originating in birds, a senior World Health Organisation official said today.
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WASHINGTON - Many of the nation's scarce remaining flu shots will be shipped directly to pediatricians, nursing homes and other places that care for high-risk patients, under a plan negotiated between the government and maker Aventis Pasteur.    The targeted shipments come as health officials struggle to ensure the people who most need flu shots get them, now that the nation's supply of influenza vaccine has been slashed in half...
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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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October means Flu season is coming. But unfortunately for a lot of people, Flu vaccines are not. There&#39;s basically a 50-50 chance that your doctor won&#39;t have the vaccine.
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One flu shot maker will squeeze out an additional million doses this year, but it is unlikely that any more can be made, federal health officials said Wednesday.
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WEDNESDAY, Sept. 19 (HealthDay News) -- Too many Americans aren&#39;t getting vaccinated for the flu, including those most at risk -- seniors, children and health-care workers -- U.S. health officials warned Wednesday.
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That&#39;s what some nurses are thinking after vaccination sites around the Twin Cities are being left with extra doses of vaccine, despite the nationwide shortage.
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RALEIGH - More than half of the people at risk for flu shots aren&#39;t getting them, federal health officials have found. Overall, about 75 percent of the nation&#39;s flu vaccine does go to high-priority populations