Illinois buying more flu shots
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Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich says the state has negotiated a tentative agreement to buy at least 30,000 flu vaccines from British wholesalers.
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Illinois and three other states already help  residents buy prescriptions from the United Kingdom and Ireland in an effort to lower costs.
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Thousands more doses of the sought-after flu vaccine will be available at public clinics and senior centers throughout San Diego County, local health officials announced Wednesday.
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Kentucky health providers will receive about 97,000 more flu vaccine doses during the next several weeks, state health authorities announced Tuesday.
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The US Food and Drug Administration said it will &quot;expeditiously&quot; consider Illinois Gov. Rod Blagojevich&#39;s request to buy up to 87,000 flu shots from European suppliers, the Chicago Sun-Times reported Tuesday.
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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.
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PEORIA - The Peoria City-County Health Department has received a shipment of about 2,000 doses of flu vaccine. Multiple flu clinics are being planned to distribute these new vaccines, health department officials said Thursday.
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New York City joined Illinois' effort on Wednesday to acquire hundreds of thousands of doses of scarce flu vaccine from Europe, though U.S. regulatory approval of the transaction was still up in the air.
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New Mexico joined Illinois Thursday in saying it wants to buy flu vaccine from a foreign plant. The states are gambling that the shortage of vaccine might persuade the Food and Drug Administration to take the unusual step of letting a state import a vaccine.
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US health officials agreed to buy 1.2 million doses of influenza vaccine made by GlaxoSmithKline on Tuesday and said another 2.8 million doses from the company will be available later during the flu season.
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CHICAGO -- Gov. Rod Blagojevich says his administration has negotiated a tentative agreement to purchase flu vaccinations from British wholesalers, but federal regulators must approve the deal.
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Federal health officials scrambled yesterday to secure more flu shots as lines of seniors and others most vulnerable to the illness grew at the few San Diego County retail sites offering the scarce vaccine.
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Description: Minnesota is seeing a surplus of flu shots for high-risk patients, some of whom are forgoing the shots so others can have them.
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Two suppliers say they will be able to provide Americans with an additional 2.6 million doses of flu vaccine and another 1 million doses of nasal flu spray.
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Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Wednesday that the city has joined an effort led by Illinois to obtain additional doses of flu vaccine from Europe to ease the nationwide shortage.
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The government is pressing to buy more flu vaccine despite a slow start to the flu season. The Food and Drug Administration has signed off on the safety of a portion of
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Blagojevich is seeking the US Food and Drug Administration&#39;s approval to buy the vaccine. The governor said Monday that his administration had found at least 62,000 vaccinations through a British wholesaler.