Flu vaccine shortage may cost businesses billions
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WASHINGTON Twenty (b) billion dollars. That&#39;s the estimated cost in lost productivity due to this year&#39;s flu vaccine shortage.
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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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With flu vaccine shortages, some companies administering the vaccine are selling it at exorbitant prices. Two such cases from Grant and Pierce counties have been filed with the Washington State Attorney General&#39;s office.
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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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With many health care facilities struggling to find flu vaccine, some small suppliers have capitalized on the acute shortage by demanding as much as 10 times the usual price.
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Long lines have formed at flu clinics held in retail stores, and others are being canceled for lack of flu vaccine. The unexpected vaccine shortage has raised many questions about how people can best protect themselves.
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NEW YORK - For the second year in a row, the US may face a profound shortage of flu vaccine. As a result of manufacturing problems, the biotech company that makes half of the flu shots needed in the US said it could not deliver any vaccine at all.
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The flu vaccine shortage has US companies bracing for a surge in costly sick days and lost productivity. The closure earlier this month of Chiron Corp.
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This season&#39;s flu vaccine shortage may be a useful wake-up call, and it should prompt citizens to demand the production of a sufficient supply of vaccines.
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Worried that tens of thousands of doses may go to waste, a federal advisory panel wants the government to ease restrictions on the nation's supply of flu vaccine.
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With serious flu-shot shortages predicted in the United States this coming season, the maker of a costlier nasal-spray vaccine says it will produce another 1 million doses to help ease the shortfall, the Baltimore Sun reported Friday.
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Companies that make flu vaccines can  "borrow" U.S. government supplies of the shots to redistribute  under a new federal plan to deal with an initial immunization  shortage, officials said on Thursday.
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US health officials are talking with several flu vaccine producers worldwide in hopes of securing doses to protect millions left vulnerable when manufacturing
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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.
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The fourth shortage of flu vaccine in five years shows the need for more manufacturers and new technology, according to the US National Institutes for Health and some members of Congress.
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This year&#39;s unexpected shortage of flu vaccine was a result of vaccine doses becoming contaminated during production. On October 5th, Chiron Corporation, a California-based biotechnology
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The vaccine is costly, and many say the rush toward mandatory inoculation could prove counterproductive.