HHS buys 1.2 million flu vaccine doses from abroad
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Dec 7, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - The federal government is buying 1.2 million doses of flu vaccine made in Germany to augment the strained US supply, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today.
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ID Biomedical of Vancouver, Canada&#39;s main supplier of flu vaccines, said Tuesday it will not sell 1.2 million doses of flu vaccine to the United States.
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The US Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a $41 million contract to Sanofi Aventis Inc. for flu vaccines. Health Secretary Tommy Thompson said part of the contract was to ensure there are
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The United States has found 5  million doses of influenza vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline Plc in  Germany and ID Biomedical in Canada and is trying to get them  for Americans, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy  Thompson said on Thursday.
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Federal investigators probing the smuggling of flu vaccine into the country have searched a home in Somers Point, and the head of nearby Shore Memorial Hospital said yesterday his hospital was offered the black market inoculations.
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Are we supposed to be overjoyed that the Federal Food and Drug Administration has authorized the purchase of up to 4 million doses of a flu vaccine made in Germany and not licensed in the United States?
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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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The U.S. Health and Human Services  Department said on Tuesday it had ordered 2 million doses of  avian influenza vaccine from Aventis Pasteur Inc.   .
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US health officials, taking another step to ease the season&#39;s flu shot shortage, approved the importation of up to 4 million flu shot doses from Europe on Tuesday for patients willing to sign a consent form.
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New York City joined Illinois' effort  on Wednesday to acquire hundreds of thousands of doses of  scarce flu vaccine from Europe, though U.S. regulatory approval  of the transaction was still up in the air.
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VANCOUVER - A Vancouver-based firm won&#39;t sell 1.2 million doses of influenza vaccine to the United States after all, announcing Tuesday that it will sell the doses within Canada instead.
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US health officials Thursday said MedImmune Inc. has made available an additional 1 million doses of its FluMist nasal spray flu vaccine.
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MedImmune Inc. will deliver another 1 million doses of its FluMist nasal spray flu vaccine to help ease a US shortage, after restarting a Philadelphia plant, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said.
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The doses came from vaccine manufacturer Aventis Pasteur, the company from which the county originally had ordered 2,000 doses. Before Friday, the county had received half that order.
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WASHINGTON - The government is purchasing additional doses of flu vaccine from a foreign manufacturer to help relieve the US shortage.
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The government is purchasing as many as 5 million additional doses of flu vaccine from plants in Canada and Germany to help relieve the US shortage.
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Illinois authorities asked on Monday  for federal approval to import from Europe thousands of doses  of flu vaccine that the state located through its controversial  program to buy cheaper medicines for older Americans.