British Flu Vaccine Is Unusable, FDA Says
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The announcement was a blow to U.S. health officials, who are scrambling to calm growing public alarm about vaccine shortages because of the loss of about half of the 100 million doses of flu vaccine the nation was expecting.
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The decision by British authorities to suspend the license of a major influenza vaccine manufacturer just before the vaccine was to be shipped shows a need for better communication, acting FDA chief Dr. Lester Crawford said on Monday.
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It is unlikely that any of the nearly 50 million doses of influenza vaccine being held at a plant in England will be found safe and released to the United States, the head of the Food and Drug Administration said Friday.
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The suspension of Chiron Corp.&#39;s license to manufacture vaccines in England - including an influenza vaccine that is a critical part of the United States&#39; protection against flu â-as been continued until early April, British health authorities said
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The US Food and Drug Administration admitted Friday that the chances of salvaging any flu vaccine from a factory in Britain are slim at best.
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The Food and Drug Administration again said the agency had no early indications that there were serious problems at a British vaccine company that was supposed to supply half of the  U.S. flu vaccine.
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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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Global and US health officials warned Tuesday of major flu shot shortages after British health officials abruptly pulled the license of the maker of half the US vaccine just as flu season was about to begin.
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The FDA reports that the five to six million banned flu vaccine doses warehoused in the USA (made by Chiron Corp) have not been moved and none has been used or given to the public.
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British health officials Friday said their U.S. counterparts knew in mid-September that problems at a drug-manufacturing plant in England could disrupt influenza vaccine supplies to the United States.
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British regulators have extended their suspension of Chiron Corp.'s license to manufacture flu vaccine, jeopardizing the company's ability to sell millions of flu shots in the United States next flu season.
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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 problems caused the loss of half the U.S. vaccine supply in October, the top FDA official said Wednesday.
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Oct. 18 - Repeated testing of the flu vaccine manufactured at a lab in Britain has ended hopes that some of that vaccine could be salvaged.
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None of Chiron Corp.'s flu vaccine  made at a British plant is safe for distribution in the United  States, acting U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner  Lester Crawford said on Friday.
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US health officials warned Tuesday of major flu shot shortages after British health officials abruptly pulled the license of the maker of half the US vaccine just as flu season was about to begin.
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The Food and Drug Administration failed to heed repeated warnings of contamination at Chiron&#39;s now-shuttered British flu-vaccine plant and the urging of US inspectors
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British health authorities on Tuesday suspended the manufacturing license of flu vaccine maker Chiron Corp., a major supplier to the United States.