Corporate Flu Shots Are Looking Sick
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With Chiron (CHIR ) suddenly unable to supply some 48 million flu-vaccine doses, the Centers for Disease Control has recommended that only &quot;high risk&quot; people be vaccinated.
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Chiron Corp.âs aggressive plan to dominate the US flu vaccine market is in tatters and the companyâs financial future is clouded as the public health crisis it caused continues to mount.
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Bacterial contamination was first reported more than a month ago at a British flu vaccine factory.
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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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There are concerns in at least two US cities that residents who thought they were getting flu shots may have been injected with something else.
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I guess when your shares have already been whacked by a third for bungling your company&#39;s introduction of its flu vaccine right at the start of the flu season, receiving a few more indignities
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The flu season is getting worse, and U.S. health officials say it's partly because the flu vaccine doesn't protect against most of the spreading flu bugs.
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Prioritizing flu shots for those most in need is proving difficult as inventories of hospitals, nursing homes and individual physicians are surveyed in the Washington region.
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The nation&#39;s supply of vaccine for the impending flu season took a big hit Thursday when Chiron Corp. announced it had found tainted doses in its factory.
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In August, scientists at a Chiron Corp. plant in Liverpool, England, said they found a reddish-brown bacteria contaminating some doses of flu vaccine.
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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 today.
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Millions of people want the protection of flu shots, but their ability to get one rests in the hands of just three drug companies.
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A flu vaccination shortage that caused lines of anxious elderly people outside drug stores and clinics across America prompted a fierce
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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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WASHINGTON -- The Food and Drug Administration, seeking to ease a major shortage of flu shots, is in discussions with two companies that sell flu vaccine in Canada and elsewhere, and have found a few million unsold doses.
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It&#39;s the time of year when people start thinking about getting a flu shot. A manufacturing problem had delayed shipments intended to arrive over the summer.
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Flu vaccine manufacturer expected to report significantly lower profits.