US flu vaccine supply halved
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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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Flu shots could be restricted to young children, senior citizens and others at high risk for influenza after the nation&#39;s vaccine supply was abruptly cut in half Tuesday.
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The British government, citing safety concerns, shuttered a drug plant yesterday that had been expected to produce nearly half of all US influenza shots this year, sending American health authorities scrambling to ensure that those in greatest danger from the flu -- the elderly and frail -- can get remaining vaccine supplies.
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UA students will have a difficult time obtaining a flu shot this year, as local and national supplies are running out. Most of the nation&#39;s remaining flu vaccine supply will be sent directly to facilities
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Millions of Americans won&#39;t get flu vaccinations this season because a major manufacturer has been shut down, cutting the nation&#39;s vaccine supply in half.
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Flu shots are in short supply this year, after British regulators have suspended the license of flu vaccine maker Chiron, one of the main companies that produce the vaccine.
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NEW YORK - For the second year in a row, the US may face a profound shortage of flu vaccine. As a result of manufacturing problems, the biotech company that makes half of the flu shots needed in the US said it could not deliver any vaccine at all.
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Of the Americans who most need a flu shot, fewer than half get one, federal health officials warned as they called for special attention to babies, toddlers and the elderly as vaccinations begin next month.
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The loss of one-half of the nation's expected flu vaccine inventory has sparked widespread public anxiety over where to find remaining vaccine and challenged health providers to get unshipped stocks to those who most need them.
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The closing of the Liverpool plant, announced last week, knocked out almost half the supply of US flu shots for this season and prompted US authorities to ask healthy people to forgo or delay inoculation.
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WASHINGTON - Americans' supply of flu vaccine was abruptly cut in half Tuesday, prompting the government to ask most healthy adults to delay or skip flu shots so that the elderly and others most at risk from influenza can get scarce supplies.    British regulators unexpectedly shut down a major flu-shot supplier Tuesday, prompting a record shortage in this country just as flu season is about to begin...
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FinancialWire) The British government delivered a major blow to the U.S. health prospects this winter when it shuttered Chiron's ( CHIR ) flu vaccine shipments, leaving a significant shortage that sent U.S. ...
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Only a few companies produce the vaccine known as the flu shot. When the UK announced that one company - accounting for half of the vaccines needed in the US - was having its license suspended due to contamination concerns - it created immediate concern.
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The flu vaccine shortage has US companies bracing for a surge in costly sick days and lost productivity. The closure earlier this month of Chiron Corp.
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WASHINGTON - Federal health officials are urging doctors to restrict flu shots to those patients at highest risk from influenza, an appeal for voluntary rationing after the nation's vaccine supply was abruptly cut in half.    British regulators unexpectedly shut down a major flu-shot supplier Tuesday, citing manufacturing problems at the Chiron Corp...
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The US faces a flu vaccine shortage after British health authorities on Tuesday suspended the license of one of two key makers of influenza vaccine in the country.
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U.S. health officials said Tuesday that they planned to steer scarce flu vaccine supplies to nursing homes, pediatricians and hospitals as the company that caused the disruptive shortage disclosed it was under ...