HHS: Foreign flu shots coming to US
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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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The US will import 5.2 million flu vaccine doses from Canada and Germany if plants there pass inspection, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson announced Thursday.
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WASHINGTON Dec 6, 2004 - The government is purchasing additional doses of flu vaccine from a foreign manufacturer to help relieve the US shortage.
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The US government is planning to purchase 5 million doses of flu vaccine from Canadian and German plants to deal with their shortages, the Canadian Broadcast Corporation (CBC) reported Monday.
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The US health secretary is expected to announce an order for five million more doses of flu vaccine, but it appears they won&#39;t come from Canada.
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British health officials said Friday that their American counterparts were informed in mid-September that problems at a drug-manufacturing plant in northwest England could disrupt influenza vaccine supplies to ...
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WASHINGTON - The United States will receive some relief from its flu-shot shortage in the form of up to 4 million new doses, the Department of Health and Human Services announced Tuesday.
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TORONTO (CP) - Officials of the US Food and Drug Administration will inspect the Ste-Foy, Que., flu vaccine production plant of ID Biomedical next week in a bid to approve the company&#39;s surplus vaccine for importation to the United States.
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BOSTON (CBS.MW) -- British drug conglomerate GlaxoSmithKline may be angling to enter the US flu-shot market. Free! Sign up here to receive our After the Bell Report e-Newsletter!
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Contamination in a British factory that  supplies flu vaccine to the United States is expected to cause  some delays but no shortage of flu shots this year, federal  health officials said on Friday.
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Oct 15, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - Federal health officials today ruled out using any of Chiron Corporation&#39;s influenza vaccine in the United States this year, following the completion of inspections at the company&#39;s plant in Liverpool, England.
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Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said Tuesday the US will immediately buy 1.2 million doses of the vaccine, called Fluarix, from Germany, and more could be on the way.
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About 440,000 doses of flu vaccine will be shipped to Florida during the next week, with 160,000 going straight to physicians and the rest to health departments, state health officials said on Friday.
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State and local health departments will soon receive additional doses of the much-needed flu vaccine, but health officials say the new shipments won&#39;t be enough to meet the needs of all high-risk patients.
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WASHINGTON Oct. 14, 2004 - Don&#39;t expect imports of flu shots from Canada or other countries to ease the crippling shortage, the nation&#39;s health secretary cautioned Thursday.
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In answer to this year&#39;s flu shot shortage, the Bush administration said yesterday that they intend to buy 1.2 million doses of flu vaccine from a plant in Germany.
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LONDON -- British health officials said yesterday that their American counterparts were informed in mid-September that problems at a drug manufacturing plant in northwest England could disrupt influenza vaccine supplies to the United States.