State health officials worried about rationing flu vaccine
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PORTLAND, Maine - A federal plan to steer shipments of influenza shots to high-need patients could ease MaineÂ´s critical shortage, but the stateÂ´s top public health official worries that it may not be enough.
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Issues of fairness have become such a prime concern in divvying up scarce doses of flu vaccine, that health officials now are asking whether some high-risk groups are more deserving than others.
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WASHINGTON - Federal health officials are urging doctors to restrict flu shots to those patients at highest risk from influenza, an appeal for voluntary rationing after the nation's vaccine supply was abruptly cut in half.    British regulators unexpectedly shut down a major flu-shot supplier Tuesday, citing manufacturing problems at the Chiron Corp...
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Flu vaccine could be scarce in the Odessa area this season, said Bob Parris, director of pharmacy for Medical Center Hospital. The hospital usually gets about 5,000 doses of the vaccine each
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Health officials say there is not enough flu vaccine for the area&#39;s high-risk population because of a nationwide shortage of vaccine.
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Two months after the government recommended that scarce flu shots be reserved for people most at risk, health officials are now worried that tens of thousands of doses could
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WASHINGTON - A top federal health official, lamenting "a very fragile vaccine production system," urged healthy people Wednesday to defer getting their influenza shots so medication will be available for those most at risk.   "We really need a long-term solution so we don't end up in this year-to-year situation where we don't have a reliable supply," Dr...
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A state agency issued an emergency order Thursday that threatens jail time and fines for health care providers caught giving flu shots to healthy, low-risk people.
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RICHMOND, Va. -- The Virginia Department of Health is seeking nearly 100,000 additional doses of flu vaccine for statewide distribution.
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OLYMPIA -- With an acute shortage of flu vaccine this year, authorities are warning consumers to be on the alert for price-gouging or practitioners using old, diluted or counterfeit vaccine.
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One day after officials with the NC Division of Public Health released a draft plan for dealing with an influenza pandemic, the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) reported there would be a shortage of flu vaccines this year.
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ATLANTA -- A top US health official on Monday told senior citizens and other &quot;at-risk&quot; groups to relax about the flu vaccine shortage.
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U.S. health officials on Thursday urged state attorneys general to fully investigate reports of price gouging by companies distributing scarce supplies of influenza vaccine and fully prosecute offenders.
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SPRINGFIELD -- As the clock keeps ticking on the fate of thousands of flu vaccine doses the state ordered from companies overseas, Gov.
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A top federal health official, lamenting &quot;a very fragile vaccine production system,&quot; urged healthy people today to defer getting their influenza shots so medication will be available for those most at risk.
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U.S. health officials are talking with several flu vaccine producers worldwide in hopes of securing doses to protect millions left vulnerable when manufacturing problems cost the country half its supply.
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Local public health officials expect to ration flu shots after British health officials took away the license of a major maker of US vaccine.