U.S. faces flu vaccine shortage after Britain shuts down plant
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KRT) - British authorities shut down one of two makers of the flu vaccine used in the United States, prompting a call Tuesday for healthy Americans to delay or forego their flu shots to give priority to those ...
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ATLANTA A former CDC vaccine expert says the government may have to ration available flu vaccine after British health officials abruptly pulled the license of a major supplier.
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LONDON -- British health officials said yesterday 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 the United States.
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Britain&#39;s decision to suspend the licence of a vaccine factory in Liverpool has left the US short of 50 million flu jabs this winter - and given President Bush a prickly
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Florida public health departments relied on a British company to supply all flu shots this year, and now the British government has shut down that company.
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Concerned health officials began investigating on Friday what went wrong at a British vaccine plant where half the US flu shots were made
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U.S. and British drug regulators met Thursday to discuss the closing of a flu-vaccine plant in northern England that has triggered an international vaccine shortage -- but there was no immediate resolution of the crisis.
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Federal regulators reportedly found manufacturing problems at Chiron&#39;s flu-vaccine plant in England last year similar to those that led British authorities to shut down the facility last week.
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While officials across the nation are urging healthy adults and schoolchildren to skip their annual flu shot, parents are mulling their options.     The news that British regulators have shut down a major flu-shot supplier carries particular concern in Colorado, which was the epicenter of last year's flu season with 12,885 reported cases and the deaths of 12 children...
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Nearly everyone seemed to have been caught off-guard last month when a British flu vaccine manufacturer was closed down by authorities because of contamination that was discovered at the company&#39;s Liverpool plant.
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Health officials predict a severe flu vaccine shortage after an Emeryville company announced Tuesday that it had halted shipment of 48 million doses because of fear of contamination.
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Chiron Corp., forced to halt shipment  on its flu vaccine because of manufacturing woes at its plant  in England, is the subject of an informal civil investigation  by U.S. regulators, the company said on Wednesday.
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U.S. health officials warned Tuesday of major flu shot shortages after British health officials abruptly pulled the license of the maker of half the U.S. vaccine just as flu season was about to begin.
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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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The local medical community is in a quandary over how to handle demand for flu shots after British health officials pulled the license of the maker of half the US vaccine supply and suspended shipments of its product.
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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.
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LONDON - U.S. health officials warned Tuesday of major flu shot shortages after British health officials abruptly pulled the license of the maker of half the U.S...