US Faces Flu Vaccine Shortage
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Unlike last year when health officials urged more people to get flu vaccines, authorities are asking the public to save the supplies for those most at risk after half of the nation&#39;s anticipated supply of vaccine became unavailable last week.
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The shortage of flu vaccine has left older people and public health officials scrambling to find shots. But the limited supply could mean that more people at high risk will get the vaccine this year.
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Complaints are building across the country that health officials are failing to distribute the remaining flu vaccine supply quickly or equitably.
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While most of the country is in the midst of an influenza vaccine shortage, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued priorities for who should get immunized this flu
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Up to 132 million doses of influenza vaccine, a record, should be available in the United States for the flu season, health officials said on Wednesday as they encouraged Americans to get their shots.
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The current US flu vaccine shortage shows perfectly how poorly the world is prepared to handle the next global epidemic of influenza, health experts said on Sunday.
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A public health crisis faces the US as the influenza season begins, after US drugmaker Chiron was blocked from shipping half the expected US flu vaccines by UK regulators.
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WASHINGTON Sept. 23, 2004 - Of the Americans who most need a flu shot, fewer than half actually get one, federal health officials warned Thursday as they called for special attention to babies, toddlers and the elderly as vaccinations begin next month.
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People are lining up by the thousands in the US, worried they won&#39;t get their flu shot this year. The US can&#39;t fill the demand because of a manufacturing problem.
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The Memorial Health Center will not be able to offer any flu vaccines this semester due to lack of availability. The United States expected a record 100 million doses of flu vaccine.
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The unexpected suspension of Chiron&#39;s production of flu vaccine created a sudden shortage of the supply available to Americans.
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British health officials Friday said their U.S. counterparts knew in mid-September that problems at a drug-manufacturing plant in England could disrupt influenza vaccine supplies to the United States.
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Just weeks ahead of flu season US health officials are scrambling to manage a record shortage of influenza vaccine. The US supply was cut in half Tuesday when British regulators abruptly shut down major flu-shot supplier Chiron Corp.
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TORONTO (CP) - US health authorities seeking desperately to overcome a massive shortage of flu vaccine in that country are in discussions with Canada&#39;s major influenza vaccine producer, the company confirmed Tuesday.
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LONDON - U.S. health officials warned Tuesday of major flu shot shortages after British health officials abruptly pulled the license of the maker of half the U.S...
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U.S. health officials are talking with several flu vaccine producers worldwide in hopes of securing doses to protect millions left vulnerable when manufacturing problems cost the country half its supply.
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WASHINGTON Federal health officials warned today that fewer than half of the Americans who most need a flu shot don&#39;t get one.