Flu Shots for Federal Workers, Military Diverted
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The federal government has diverted 300,000 doses of the flu vaccine originally meant for federal employees and the military to high-risk civilian groups, such as people older than 65 and
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Description: The US government is working to redirect remaining supplies of the flu vaccine as it tries to ensure it reaches people who need it most: children, the elderly and people with chronic diseases.
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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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SACRAMENTO The state&#39;s top health official has ordered doctors and health care workers to reserve flu shots for high-risk patients such as the elderly and young children.
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(CBS/AP) Four military recruits died in the past year and thousands others were sickened by a flu-like virus for which the military once had a vaccine program that was abandoned to save money.
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Aug 27, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - Close to half of the nation&#39;s influenza vaccine doses will be shipped later than expected this fall, but everyone who wants a flu shot should ultimately be able to get it, federal health officials said today.
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Many elderly residents at assisted-living centers and nursing homes in Clemmons and Davie County have received flu shots amid the nationwide shortage of flu vaccine.
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Contamination in a British factory that  supplies flu vaccine to the United States is expected to cause  some delays but no shortage of flu shots this year, federal  health officials said on Friday.
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Health officials yesterday said 22.4 million unshipped doses of flu vaccine will be made available to people who are most at risk of getting the virus.
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About 22.4 million doses of Aventis Pasteur flu vaccine that have not been shipped to customers will be redirected to public health departments, nursing homes and veterans hospitals to serve those most at risk, health officials said Tuesday.
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Deployed military troops, emergency  workers, pregnant women and children will be among the first to  get scarce vaccinations if a pandemic strain of flu breaks out,  U.S. officials said.
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State health officials will now be allocating flu vaccines as high-risk individuals seek out the remaining supply of shots, federal health officials said Tuesday.
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King County public health officials warned yesterday that a nationwide shortage of influenza vaccines would leave many local residents without access to flu shots this fall.
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On the cusp of flu season, federal health officials are attempting an unprecedented redirection and rationing of the flu vaccine -- after a British regulatory agency abruptly
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U.S. health officials worked to  redistribute flu vaccine to the neediest as worried Americans  took matters into their own hands, heading across borders to  Canada and Mexico to get shots on Friday.
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in some cases by the boatload -- in search of flu vaccine. With a US shortage caused by contaminated vaccine and
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With the peak of the flu season approaching, many Americans who should have received vaccine shots have not yet been inoculated, federal officials reported yesterday.