With Few Suppliers of Flu Shots, Shortage Was Long in Making
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Health experts had warned that the nation's system for vaccine supply and distribution was growing increasingly fragile.
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Unlike last year when health officials urged more people to get flu vaccines, authorities are asking the public to save the supplies for those most at risk after half of the nation&#39;s anticipated supply of vaccine became unavailable last week.
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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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Seventy-year-old Homer Fink spent eight hours sitting next to a supermarket Halloween display for a flu shot that he wasn't able to get at five other places. The scene was repeated across the country as the nation's suddenly limited supply of flu vaccine was drained.
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Americans' supply of flu vaccine was cut in half Tuesday as Britain abruptly shut down a major supplier just as flu season is about to begin. Facing a record shortage, U.S. health officials scrambled to reserve remaining shots for the elderly and others at highest risk from influenza.
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The sudden, major flu vaccine shortage that shocked health authorities last week highlights two vulnerabilities in the nation&#39;s immunization system: a reliance on a few private manufacturers that use old technology, and government&#39;s faith that companies
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The flu season is not here yet, but the shortage has prompted an uncertain triage of prevention.
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WASHINGTON - Many of the nation's scarce remaining flu shots will be shipped directly to pediatricians, nursing homes and other places that care for high-risk patients, under a plan negotiated between the government and maker Aventis Pasteur.    The targeted shipments come as health officials struggle to ensure the people who most need flu shots get them, now that the nation's supply of influenza vaccine has been slashed in half...
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This year's flu season has started slowly in the United States, where there are concerns about a shortage of vaccine caused by production problems at a major manufacturer, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said on Monday.
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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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A shortage of flu vaccine has led to lines for injections while the authorities are battling to halt price gouging for the vaccines available.
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LOUISVILLE Kentucky has a statewide shortage of flu vaccines and health officials say they are trying to determine how to distribute it.
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This season's flu-shot shortage is enticing companies to enter a market that others have largely abandoned because of poor profits.
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A flu vaccination shortage that caused lines of anxious elderly people outside drug stores and clinics across America prompted a fierce
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Long lines have formed at flu clinics in retail stores, and others are being canceled for lack of vaccine. The unexpected vaccine shortage has raised many questions about how people can best protect themselves.
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The US influenza season is starting slowly, but it is still too early to tell how severe the outbreak will be as the nation faces a vaccine shortage, the
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This year's flu season has started  slowly in the United States, where there are concerns about a  shortage of vaccine caused by production problems at a major  manufacturer, the head of the Centers for Disease Control and  Prevention said on Monday.