A Big Maker of Flu Shots Finds Some Contaminated
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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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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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WASHINGTON -- Flu vaccine manufacturer Chiron has three weeks to respond to a Food and Drug Administration warning letter that alleges violations of FDA regulations at the company&#39;s plant in Liverpool, England, where contamination problems led to the US
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All Things Considered, October 5, 2004 Â· The closure of a major flu vaccine manufacturer will cause major shortages during the upcoming flu season, say health officials.
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Syringes are loaded with influenza vaccine at a Chiron facility in Liverpool, England, in an undated photo provided by Chiron Corp.
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WASHINGTON Nov 15, 2004 - Chiron Corp. has asked British regulators to inspect its facility producing an experimental bird flu vaccine to make sure it doesn&#39;t run into the same contamination problems that
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This season's flu-shot shortage is enticing companies to enter a market that others have largely abandoned because of poor profits.
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US health regulators say they found quality-control problems at a flu vaccine factory in Liverpool, England, in June 2003 but did not begin a full inspection of the plant again
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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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(National-NBC) Nov. 8, 2004 - A report in Monday&#39;s Kansas City Star newspaper says US inspectors knew five years ago there were contamination problems at a British plant that makes american flu vaccines.
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Description: NPR&#39;s Richard Knox reports on the contamination of flu vaccines manufactured by Chrion. Officials with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention say the contamination was detected early enough
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Concerned health officials began investigating what went wrong at a British vaccine plant where half the U.S. flu shots were made, while Americans jostled for now-scarce immunizations on Friday.
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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 Food and Drug Administration found serious problems of bacterial contamination at an influenza vaccine plant in England in 2003, 16 months before British regulators effectively closed the
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Chiron, the biotechnology company that left the US short of half its normal supply of flu vaccine this winter after contamination fears at its Speke factory in Liverpool, has
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Federal investigators probing the smuggling of flu vaccine into the country have searched a home in Somers Point, and the head of nearby Shore Memorial Hospital said yesterday his hospital was offered the black market inoculations.
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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 ...