Some Suppliers Jack Up Flu Vaccine Price
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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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The United States is facing a major shortage of flu vaccines after one of the world&#39;s leading suppliers said it would not provide any this season.
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The US flu vaccine shortage has reached a low point. Distributors accross the nation and here in Texas are hiking up prices, taking advantage of the extreme need.
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The government is pressing to buy more flu vaccine despite a slow start to the flu season. The Food and Drug Administration has signed off on the safety of a portion of
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Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott filed a lawsuit Thursday against two flu shot distributors, accusing them of offering the vaccine to hospitals in Houston, Dallas and Sherman at prices inflated up to 1,000 percent.
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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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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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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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US officials may have to step up efforts to recruit flu vaccine suppliers for next year amid new concerns that Chiron may not restart production in time.
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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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LONDON - Flu shot shipments by a major vaccine supplier were blocked by British health authorities Tuesday just ahead of the flu season, immediately raising worries that there will be enough vaccine this year.   "The implications may be significant...
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OLYMPIA -- With an acute shortage of flu vaccine this year, authorities are warning consumers to be on the alert for price-gouging or practitioners using old, diluted or counterfeit vaccine.
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SAN FRANCISCO - The nation&#39;s vaccine supply for the coming flu season took a big hit yesterday when Chiron Corp. announced it found tainted doses at its factory.
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The Bush administration said Thursday it is working to buy another 5 million doses of flu vaccine from manufacturers in Canada and Germany, mixing the ticklish issue of prescription drug imports with the flu shot shortage.
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A major maker of influenza vaccines for the United States market said it has found that some of its new supplies are contaminated, delaying release of some 50 million doses, the New York Times reported Friday.
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Jack Bond's hospital pharmacy needed 2,800 flu shots, but his supplier couldn't provide them. Plenty of other distributors were ready to meet his needs, though &#151; for a price: as much as &#36;600 for a vial of 10 flu shots that normally costs around &#36;80.
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With flu vaccine shortages, some companies administering the vaccine are selling it at exorbitant prices. Two such cases from Grant and Pierce counties have been filed with the Washington State Attorney General&#39;s office.