Maryland Company Increases FluMist Doses
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A Maryland company is doing its best to lessen the severity of the flu vaccine shortage. Word that Maryland-based MedImmune would provide an additional one million doses to its previous production level
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Aventis-Pasteur will supply the US market with an additional 2.6 million doses of flu vaccine beyond what the company already has promised, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said on Tuesday.
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A new version of the nasal spray vaccine  FluMist is better at preventing influenza than traditional flu  shots in older babies and children, according to a study  sponsored by its maker, MedImmune.
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MedImmune Inc. said Tuesday that it is evaluating whether it can help stem a threatened flu vaccination shortage by producing more doses of its inhaled vaccine FluMist after a request from federal officials.  -The Washington Post
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida is getting a big shipment of flu vaccine from the federal government and drug maker Aventis Pasteur -- but not right away.
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Michigan&#39;s top health agency is overseeing the distribution of 230,000 new doses of flu vaccine, to get shots to high-risk people in the next three weeks.
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MedImmune Inc. will provide an additional 1 million doses of its FluMist nasal-spray vaccine this year to help the country overcome a shortage of flu shots, US health officials said yesterday.
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Howard Pien, chief executive of Chiron, said he wanted to help meet the US need for more flu vaccine while expanding the business of his company.
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BETHESDA, Maryland  - A new strain of flu virus  called "A California" will be added to the mix used in the U.S.  vaccine for next season, which is already causing anxiety after  a shortage in the current season.
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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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U.S. health officials said they do not expect a flu shot shortage after a leading flu vaccine maker warned that it would hold up millions of doses because several batches were contaminated.
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PIERRE, SD - The state has received more flu vaccine, raising the number of doses to 148,462, up from an estimated 123,000 doses in mid-October, the state Health Department said.
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U.S. health officials on Tuesday  approved the importation of up to 4 million doses of influenza  vaccine made by GlaxoSmithKline, bringing the U.S. total to 65  million vaccines for this flu season.
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Government health officials gave an upbeat flu report yesterday, telling Congress that early signs point to a light flu season and that 5 million additional doses of flu vaccine may soon be available.
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With serious flu-shot shortages predicted in the United States this coming season, the maker of a costlier nasal-spray vaccine says it will produce another 1 million doses to help ease the shortfall, the Baltimore Sun reported Friday.
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The FDA approves a new one, boosting the number of doses ready as another flu season approaches
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FRIDAY, Jan. 11 (HealthDay News) -- Expanded use of the FluMist vaccine for children and revised meningococcal vaccination guidelines for teens are part of new immunization recommendations released Friday.