More Questions for Producer of Flu Vaccine
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The Chiron Corporation said yesterday that it had received a warning letter from the Food and Drug Administration demanding more information about the company&#39;s plans to fix widespread sanitary
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Federal health officials could import up to 5.2 million additional flu vaccine doses from Canada and Germany to help mitigate an unexpected national flu vaccine supply shortage if manufacturing facilities in those countries pass FDA inspections, HHS
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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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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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US health officials said Friday they do not expect a flu-shot shortage in the wake of a leading flu vaccine maker&#39;s announcement that it would hold up millions of doses because several batches were contaminated.
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FluMist maker, MedImmune Inc, says it will deliver an extra one million doses of its nasal spray. American authorities, desperate for flu vaccines are extremely grateful - their shortfall, however, is still over 40 million doses.
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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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The World Health Organisation yesterday suggested there may be an international shortage of flu vaccines this winter as medicines watchdogs suspended the British manufacturing licence of the world&#39;s second-largest supplier.
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Aventis-Pasteur (AVEP.PA: Quote, Profile, Research) will supply the US market with an additional 2.6 million doses of flu vaccine beyond what the company already has promised, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said
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US officials may have to step up efforts to recruit flu vaccine suppliers for next year amid new concerns that Chiron may not restart production in time.
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Only a few companies produce the vaccine known as the flu shot. When the UK announced that one company - accounting for half of the vaccines needed in the US - was having its license suspended due to contamination concerns - it created immediate concern.
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TORONTO (CP) - US health authorities seeking desperately to overcome a massive shortage of flu vaccine in that country are in discussions with Canada&#39;s major influenza vaccine producer, the company confirmed Tuesday.
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Chiron (CHIR:Nasdaq - news - research) said Thursday that it had found some problems with the production of its Fluvirin influenza virus vaccine, which will cause a delay in the product&#39;s reaching the market until early October.
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With flu season around the corner, local providers of influenza vaccines learned recently that supplies will likely have to be rationed because a major producer
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The fourth shortage of flu vaccine in five years shows the need for more manufacturers and new technology, according to the US National Institutes for Health and some members of Congress.
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GlaxoSmithKline Plc is exploring ways to sell its Fluarix flu vaccine in the United States, where supplies have run short this season after Chiron Corp lost a year&#39;s production to contamination.
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Bee Staff Writer. With a key maker of flu vaccine forced to dump half the nation&#39;s supply Tuesday, the federal government is asking healthy adults to skip or delay their flu shot this year so people at greatest risk can be immunized.