US government buys avian flu vaccine
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The US government has awarded a $13 million contract to Aventis Pasteur Inc. to manufacture and store 2 million doses of avian influenza H5N1 vaccine.
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Chiron Corp. has won a contract to  develop a human vaccine against a strain of bird flu that can  infect people and "has the potential to trigger a modern-day  pandemic," the U.S. government said on Tuesday.
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U.S. health officials, taking  another step to ease the season's flu shot shortage, approved  the importation of up to 4 million flu shot doses from Europe  on Tuesday for patients willing to sign a consent form.
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Dec. 7, 2004 -- Health officials announced Tuesday that they have reached an agreement to import 1.2 million doses of flu vaccine from Germany in a continuing effort to boost US supplies.
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The U.S. Health and Human Services  Department said on Tuesday it had ordered 2 million doses of  avian influenza vaccine from Aventis Pasteur Inc.
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The U.S. government on Tuesday  awarded Sanofi-Aventis a contract worth up to $41 million  through 2008 to maintain a supply of eggs year-round that could  be used in flu vaccine production.
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A Canadian health official said Monday that Canada can provide 2 million doses of flu vaccine to remedy US&#39;s vaccine shortage.
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US health officials said Thursday they have secured an additional 1 million doses of FluMist, a nasal spray flu vaccine. This increases the total flu vaccine supply this
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The US government on Tuesday awarded Sanofi-Aventis (SASY.PA: Quote, Profile, Research) a contract worth up to $41 million through 2008 to ensure that enough eggs are available for future flu vaccine production.
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US health officials have confirmed that the entire stock of flu vaccine from a British producer is unusable. The US had hoped to salvage some of the doses made by Chiron, which account for nearly half of its annual supply.
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ATLANTA The federal government will soon announce the purchase and distribution plan for additional flu vaccines that will help relieve the nation&#39;s shortage.
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AmerisourceBergen Corp.  said on Monday it has signed a 10-year agreement with ID Biomedical Corp.  of Canada to distribute ID Biomedical's flu vaccine in the United States.
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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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The US Health and Human Services Department said on Tuesday it had ordered 2 million doses of avian influenza vaccine from Aventis Pasteur Inc.
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GlaxoSmithKline PLC is in talks with the Food and Drug Administration about selling its Fluarix influenza vaccine in the United States this season because of the expected flu vaccine shortage this year.
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A Canadian company is offering to sell 1.2 million doses of surplus flu vaccine to the United States as Americans continue to flood across the border for shots.
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New York City on Wednesday joined Illinoisâ push for federal approval of European-manufactured flu vaccine. The purchase of 200,000 doses of flu vaccine by New York comes just a week after