Vaccine uproar may have raised demand, poll says
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The uproar over the flu vaccine shortage has had at least one potentially salutary effect: More people are eager to get it, the results of a new Mobile Register-University of South Alabama poll indicates.
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WASHINGTON -- Even before the latest fiasco over flu vaccine supply, companies were working to streamline the process of making vaccine, but experts say the major obstacle remains: There&#39;s too little demand for the shots -- and too little reward.
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SOMERS POINT | The nation&#39;s shortage of flu vaccine has led to massive lines of hopeful recipients waiting hours for the precious doses.
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Most states have enough flu vaccine to meet demand so far this year, federal officials reported Thursday, and one of the reasons is that even those in the high risk category have been releuctant to get inoculated.
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Federal health authorities are considering broadening the range of people who can get flu shots because of an unexpected quantity of unused vaccine.
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US Health Secretary Tommy Thompson has urged local officials to investigate reports of companies raising prices to exploit a flu vaccine shortage.
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Citing &quot;an urgent need&quot; at a time of flu vaccine shortages, Illinois asked for federal permission Monday to buy at least 30,000 vaccine doses from Europe for the state&#39;s nursing home residents.
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More than 3,000 people who volunteered to receive an experimental Merck and Co. AIDS vaccine are being told to come back and get extra tests because the jab may itself raise the risk of infection.
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Chicago -- Citing &quot;an urgent need&quot; at a time of flu vaccine shortages, Illinois asked for federal permission Monday to buy at least 62,000 vaccine doses from Europe for the state&#39;s nursing home residents.
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Americans are caught between worries over the safety of the flu vaccine and fears that they will not be able to get it when they
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RICHMOND, Va. -- The Virginia Department of Health is seeking nearly 100,000 additional doses of flu vaccine for statewide distribution.
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Â· Studies have exaggerated benefits, say scientists  Â· Mass vaccine programme called into question
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The shortage of flu vaccine has left older people and public health officials scrambling to find shots. But the limited supply could mean that more people at high risk will get the vaccine this year.
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Oct. 14, 2004 - Caught off-guard by a last-minute flu vaccine shortage, hospitals and health officials are grappling with a side-effect perhaps more virulent than the bug itself: price gouging.
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The local medical community is in a quandary over how to handle demand for flu shots after British health officials pulled the license of the maker of half the US vaccine supply and suspended shipments of its product.
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People are lining up by the thousands in the US, worried they won&#39;t get their flu shot this year. The US can&#39;t fill the demand because of a manufacturing problem.
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Parents urged to get children vaccinated after figures showed number of cases had more than trebled over last 11 weeks.