Company reports contaminated flu shots
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Chiron Corp., which makes nearly half the country&#39;s flu shots, announced Thursday some batches of the Fluvirin flu vaccine made in its England factory were found to be contaminated.
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U.S. health officials said they do not expect a flu shot shortage after a leading flu vaccine maker warned that it would hold up millions of doses because several batches were contaminated...
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The Food and Drug Administration has demanded more answers from Chiron Corp. about its efforts to correct operating flaws at the Liverpool plant, where half of the US flu vaccine for this winter was lost to contamination.
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NEW YORK (CBS.MW) -- Chiron&#39;s shares sank 8 percent Friday after two analyst downgrades sparked by news that shipments of Fluvirin, the company&#39;s flu vaccine, will be delayed because some doses are contaminated.
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Chiron Corp. has asked British regulators to inspect its facility producing an experimental bird flu vaccine to make sure it doesn&#39;t run into the same contamination problems
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Concerned health officials began investigating on Friday what went wrong at a British vaccine plant where half the US flu shots were made
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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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US health regulators say they found quality-control problems at a flu vaccine factory in Liverpool, England, in June 2003 but did not begin a full inspection of the plant again
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Concerned health officials began investigating what went wrong at a British vaccine plant where half the US flu shots were made, while
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The chief executive of Chiron Corp. told lawmakers Wednesday that the company first found signs of bacterial contamination in several batches of its flu vaccine in July -- even as it was beginning to ship
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Some members of Congress are taking the US Food and Drug Administration to task for the agency&#39;s assertions that contamination problems at a major flu vaccine supplier took the FDA by surprise, The New York Times reported Thursday.
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Last week, the Chiron Corporation, which manufactures close to half of America&#39;s influenza vaccine supply announced a delay in shipping its Fluvirin influenza virus vaccine, due to the possibility of contaminated doses.
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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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Well, it seems that now folks are going to have to give the French at least a few make-up points. While the British company Chiron turned out contaminated flu vaccine, the French company Aventis Pasteur provided
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Concerned health officials began  investigating on Friday what went wrong at a British vaccine  plant where half the U.S. flu shots were made, and called on  more companies to get into the vaccine business.
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he Chiron Corporation, a major manufacturer of influenza vaccine, said yesterday that it had detected a contamination problem in its new supply and was delaying release of nearly 50 million
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Nearly everyone seemed to have been caught off-guard last month when a British flu vaccine manufacturer was closed down by authorities because of contamination that was discovered at the company&#39;s Liverpool plant.