Anger over flu jab shortage
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NI doctors are furious at the Department of Health's handling of a flu vaccine shortage, the BMA says.
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WASHINGTON - Federal health officials are urging doctors to restrict flu shots to those patients at highest risk from influenza, an appeal for voluntary rationing after the nation's vaccine supply was abruptly cut in half.    British regulators unexpectedly shut down a major flu-shot supplier Tuesday, citing manufacturing problems at the Chiron Corp...
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DENVER - While officials across the nation are urging healthy adults and schoolchildren to skip their annual flu shot, parents are mulling their options. The news that British regulators have shut down a major flu-shot supplier carries particular concern in Colorado, which was the epicenter of last year's flu season with 12,885 reported cases and the deaths of 12 children...
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Local public health officials are asking private clinics and doctors offices to postpone giving the flu vaccine until they have a better idea of how much will be available this flu season.
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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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Oct. 8, 2004 -- Government health officials and vaccine manufacturers warn that they can do little to ease the expected widespread flu shot shortages announced earlier this week.
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Bee Staff Writer. With a key maker of flu vaccine forced to dump half the nation&#39;s supply Tuesday, the federal government is asking healthy adults to skip or delay their flu shot this year so people at greatest risk can be immunized.
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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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LONDON - Global and U.S. health officials warned Tuesday of major flu shot shortages after British health officials abruptly pulled the license of the maker of half the U.S...
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Complaints are building across the country that health officials are failing to distribute the remaining flu vaccine supply quickly or equitably.
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Federal health officials are scrambling to handle an unexpected shortage of flu vaccine, but it is too early to know how the situation will affect local supplies.
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U.S. health officials, stung by political attacks after losing 40 percent of the flu shot supply, got a small break on Tuesday as one vaccine supplier announced it had squeezed out an extra 2.6 million doses.
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This article was reported by Denise Grady, Lizette Alvarez, Gardiner Harris and Andrew Pollack and was written by Ms. Grady. Scene by disheartening scene, the spectacle of a severe shortage of flu vaccine is unfolding around the country.
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Americans' supply of flu vaccine was abruptly cut in half Tuesday, prompting the government to ask most healthy adults to delay or skip flu shots so that the elderly and others most at risk from influenza can get scarce supplies.    British regulators unexpectedly shut down a major flu-shot supplier Tuesday, prompting a record shortage in this country just as flu season is about to begin...
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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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The World Health Organisation yesterday suggested there may be an international shortage of flu vaccines this winter as medicines watchdogs suspended the British manufacturing licence of the world&#39;s second-largest supplier.
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MIAMI -- Hundreds of people lined up at South Florida stores and pharmacies to get flu shots Wednesday, only to learn that the vaccine is running out -- and not everyone who wants one is qualifying to get a shot.