States sue flu vaccine wholesaler
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Texas and Connecticut joined Kansas and Florida last week in filing suits against a flu vaccine wholesaler for trying to sell scarce supplies of the immunization for 10 times the normal market value.
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A drug wholesaler accused of overcharging for flu vaccine agreed Wednesday to turn over its remaining inventory - a total of five vials - and to no longer buy or sell it.
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A CONVENIENCE store owner has been charged with smuggling flu vaccine into the United States from Saudi Arabia and offering it for sale to a hospital, apparently to cash in on the national shortage.
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A black-market flu-shot smuggler who tried to exploit the nation&#39;s vaccine shortage is on the lam after trying to sell thousands of illegal doses to a New Jersey hospital, law-enforcement sources said yesterday.
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SAN DIEGO -- Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed a lawsuit Friday against a San Diego-based flu shot distributor amid a shortage of the vaccine.
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Jack Bond&#39;s hospital pharmacy needed 2,800 flu shots, but his supplier couldn&#39;t provide them. Plenty of other distributors were ready to meet his needs, though - for a price: as much as $600 for a vial of 10 flu shots that normally costs about $80.
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As flu vaccine rip off merchants try to get onto the gravy train the attorneys general in Texas and Connecticut have started suing.
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The US health secretary asks local officials to investigate reports of companies raising prices to exploit a flu vaccine shortage.
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Long lines have formed at flu clinics held in retail stores, and others are being canceled for lack of flu vaccine. The unexpected vaccine shortage has raised many questions about how people can best protect themselves.
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As the demand for the flu vaccine continues to put pressure on an already scarce supply, price gouging has become a problem. The Attorney General of Kansas has filed a lawsuit against Fort Lauderdale, Florida
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Chiron Corp., forced to halt shipment  on its flu vaccine because of manufacturing woes at its plant  in England, is the subject of an informal civil investigation  by U.S. regulators, the company said on Wednesday.
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Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott today filed a lawsuit against two flu shot distributors, accusing them of selling vials of vaccine to hospitals in Houston, Dallas and Sherman at inflated prices.
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Attorneys general in Connecticut and Texas have filed suit against ASAP Meds Inc. of Fort Lauderdale, Fla., for flu-vaccine price gouging.
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The state&#39;s medical quality board has accused a physician of giving outdated flu vaccine to 55 patients. Dr. Gary McCallum used a batch of last year&#39;s vaccine, according
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State officials now can track flu vaccine shipments on a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention secure Web site. Health officials have been grappling with flu vaccine shortages in recent weeks.
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With many health care facilities struggling to find flu vaccine, some small suppliers have capitalized on the acute shortage by demanding as much as 10 times the usual price.
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Dr Gary McCallum, Washington state, has been accused of giving 55 patients out-of-date flu vaccines. He used last year&#39;s vaccines, says the Medical Quality Assurance Commission of Washington State.