CDC Flu Plan Protects High-Risk Patients
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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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Health Department officials are warning residents to take extra precautions against contracting and spreading influenza this season.
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Health officials are urging the public to stay patient -- even as some states are reporting a shortage of flu shots for their high-risk populations.
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While most of the country is in the midst of an influenza vaccine shortage, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has issued priorities for who should get immunized this flu
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The U.S. military will give flu  shots to troops in Iraq and other key areas overseas and to  high-risk family dependents, but thousands of others will go  unprotected this year, the Pentagon said on Thursday.
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AUSTIN - The Department of State Health Services has expanded its priority list for flu shots recipients to include people over 50 and caregivers of those deemed high risk.
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Concerned that many people at high risk of serious health problems from contracting the flu still have not been vaccinated, the director of the federal Centers for Disease
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In the face of heavy demand for flu shots, the province advised health care officials Friday to temporarily allow only those at high risk to have access to the public vaccine supply.
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About 6,000 to 8,000 doses of influenza vaccine will be available this month to St. Louis County residents who are considered to be at high risk of catching the flu.
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About 75 million doses of flu vaccine will be distributed by the end of October, a near-record amount that should prevent the shot rationing seen in previous flu seasons, federal health officials said Wednesday.
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WASHINGTON Aug. 25, 2004 - Closing schools, restricting travel and rationing scarce medications may be the nation&#39;s first protections if a powerful new flu strain spurs a worldwide outbreak because it will
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Stephenson County, Illinois- Stateline residents, who are considered high risk for contracting the flu, will now have their chance to get vaccinated.
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U.S. health officials turned to a back-up plan for flu season on Wednesday, working to redistribute doses of vaccine after losing half the anticipated supply.
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As the flu vaccine shortage hits home and long lines queue around the supermarket, a handful of states and the nation's capital are threatening doctors and nurses with fines or even jail if they give flu shots to healthy, low-risk people.
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WASHINGTON -- The director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said there are some cases in which the general public can receive flu shots, given that tens of thousands of doses could otherwise go to waste.
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The federal government's voluminous plans for dealing with pandemic flu do not adequately account for the overwhelming strain an outbreak would place on hospitals and public health systems trying to cope with millions of seriously ill Americans, some public health experts and local health officia...
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com. Delaware County residents who are at high risk for the flu and who haven&#39;t received flu shots may benefit from additional doses obtained for Pennsylvania by the US