Vaccine woes raise larger issues
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The flu vaccine shortage that&#39;s stirred worries here and abroad could look mild compared to another public health crisis that might be waiting in the wings.
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Long lines have formed at flu clinics in retail stores, and others are being canceled for lack of vaccine. The unexpected vaccine shortage has raised many questions about how people can best protect themselves.
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Federal health officials are scrambling to handle an unexpected shortage of flu vaccine, but it is too early to know how the situation will affect local supplies.
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A significant number of deaths and serious side effects could result from a mass smallpox vaccination program, a new analysis suggests.
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WASHINGTON - Thirty-four percent of Americans with a relative who is at high risk of danger from getting the flu say they are worried about the vaccine shortage, according to an Associated Press poll about the crisis that has health officials scrambling
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The flu vaccine shortage might stretch into 2005 if one key US supplier cannot resume manufacturing in time. By Henry Barrios, The Bakersfield Californian via AP.
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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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The vaccine is costly, and many say the rush toward mandatory inoculation could prove counterproductive.
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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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Wyeth Pharmaceuticals' experience is part of a long, slow industry-wide flight away from flu vaccine, which has simply become more trouble than it's worth.
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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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NEW YORK - If the United States wants to avoid future shortages of flu vaccine it must take steps to draw drug companies back into the business of making the inoculations, flu experts say. In a bad year, the stakes could be higher than just saving people from fever, headaches and a runny nose...
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Issues of fairness have become such a prime concern in divvying up scarce doses of flu vaccine, that health officials now are asking whether some high-risk groups are more deserving than others.
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LONG lines of anxious people have begun showing up at clinics across the United States as people scramble for flu vaccines. Hopes of averting a flu inoculation crisis as winter approaches have been dashed
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There have been widespread concerns that mercury-based preservatives used in vaccines might impair the neurological development of children, but the opposite seems to be true.
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Concerned health officials began  investigating what went wrong at a British vaccine plant where  half the U.S. flu shots were made, while Americans jostled for  now-scarce immunizations on Friday.
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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 pre-election exchange  of accusations between Democrats and Republicans on Monday.