Flu vaccine maker is investigated
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The closing of the Liverpool plant, announced last week, knocked out almost half the supply of US flu shots for this season and prompted US authorities to ask healthy people to forgo or delay inoculation.
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As flu season neared in late September, the drugmaker at the center of the vaccine shortage radiated confidence. By Tim Boyle, Getty Images.
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in some cases by the boatload -- in search of flu vaccine. With a US shortage caused by contaminated vaccine and
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Well, it seems that now folks are going to have to give the French at least a few make-up points. While the British company Chiron turned out contaminated flu vaccine, the French company Aventis Pasteur provided
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EMERYVILLE, Calif. Officials of the Chiron corporation plan to testify before Congress about the manufacturing problems in a British factory preventing the company from releasing its flu vaccine to the public.
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LONDON -- Stunned US health officials met with British regulators yesterday to discuss the suspension of flu vaccine production that has slashed supplies across the United States and planned to inspect the British factory to see whether any impounded vaccine could be salvaged.
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The largest flu vaccine maker in Canada says talks are under way to sell excess influenza vaccines to the US government, but federal health officials Wednesday would not acknowledge such discussions.
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The sudden, major flu vaccine shortage that shocked health authorities last week highlights two vulnerabilities in the nation&#39;s immunization system: a reliance on a few private manufacturers that use old technology, and government&#39;s faith that companies
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The Food and Drug Administration uncovered contamination and unsanitary conditions at a British flu vaccine manufacturing plant in 2003 but failed to re-inspect it until similar
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In the last three inspections of the overseas factory that the USA was counting on for half its flu vaccine this year, FDA officials found serious problems but
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British health officials said Friday that their American counterparts were informed in mid-September that problems at a drug-manufacturing plant in northwest England could disrupt influenza vaccine supplies to ...
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WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration, seeking to ease a major shortage of flu shots, is in discussions with two companies that sell flu vaccine in Canada and elsewhere, and have found a few million unsold doses.
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LONDON Oct. 5, 2004 - Flu shot shipments by a major vaccine supplier were blocked by British health authorities Tuesday just ahead of the flu season, immediately raising worries that there will be enough vaccine this year.
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Federal regulators said an inspection of Chiron Corp.'s (CHIR) flu-vaccine plant in England last year turned up manufacturing problems similar to those that led British authorities to shut down the facility ...
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he Chiron Corporation, a major manufacturer of influenza vaccine, said yesterday that it had detected a contamination problem in its new supply and was delaying release of nearly 50 million
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The maker of FluMist said it is looking into whether it can make more of the inhalable flu vaccine to help the federal government deal with a looming flu vaccine shortage.
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The U.S. Congress began investigating on Wednesday whether the U.S. Food and Drug Administration overlooked problems at a British plant that led to the withdrawal of half the country's flu vaccine supply.