Spray Flu Vaccine Comes at a Trickle
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The tiny tubes of FluMist quiver as they speed hour after hour down the assembly line, armed with an invisible blend of virus and targeted in a chaotic flu season at the many Americans cut off from a flu shot.
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in some cases by the boatload -- in search of flu vaccine. With a US shortage caused by contaminated vaccine and
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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
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Jack Bond&#39;s hospital pharmacy needed 2,800 flu shots, but his supplier couldn&#39;t provide them. Plenty of other distributors were ready to meet his needs, though - for a price: as much as $600 for a vial of 10 flu shots that normally costs about $80.
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It&#39;s the time of year when people start thinking about getting a flu shot. A manufacturing problem had delayed shipments intended to arrive over the summer.
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With the peak of the flu season approaching, many Americans who should have received vaccine shots have not yet been inoculated, federal officials reported yesterday.
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FluMist maker, MedImmune Inc, says it will deliver an extra one million doses of its nasal spray. American authorities, desperate for flu vaccines are extremely grateful - their shortfall, however, is still over 40 million doses.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida is getting a big shipment of flu vaccine from the federal government and drug maker Aventis Pasteur -- but not right away.
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A Maryland manufacturer will provide an additional 1 million doses of its FluMist vaccine, making a total of 3 million doses of the nasal spray available, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy G. Thompson said Thursday, as officials tried to deal with a shortage of flu shots.
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In October and November Americans stood in line for hours to get one of the precious few flu shots. But now that more vaccine is available &#151; with a few million more doses expected from British and German suppliers &#151; demand is dwindling.
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There&#39;s enough flu vaccine available now for seniors and others at high risk, but many have given up trying to get a shot, worried health officials said yesterday.
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Fearing that a flu vaccine shortage may turn into a glut, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Wednesday more people should get shots so the vaccines don't go to waste.
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com. As many as 1,500 flu shots will be available to at-risk residents next Tuesday in the first general public vaccine clinic since October.
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ALBANY, NY The state is getting hundreds of thousands of doses of flu vaccine, but the supply will still fall short of what New York needs.
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Baby boomers, wash your hands and cover your mouths. The country's supply of vaccine for influenza, or the flu, was cut in half last week when CHIRON, an English company that makes flu vaccine, had its ...
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LONG lines of anxious people have begun showing up at clinics across the United States as people scramble for flu vaccines. Hopes of averting a flu inoculation crisis as winter approaches have been dashed
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Preparations for this year&#39;s influenza season were upended Tuesday when federal officials announced that the country&#39;s supply of flu vaccine would be half of what had been expected.