FDA says flu vaccine shortage was surprise
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Prospects of losing half of the US flu vaccine came as a surprise to the US Food and Drug Administration last week, the Washington Post said Tuesday.
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Contamination in a British factory that  supplies flu vaccine to the United States is expected to cause  some delays but no shortage of flu shots this year, federal  health officials said on Friday.
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The flu vaccine shortage shows how unprepared the world is for what could be a global flu epidemic percolating in Asia, experts said here Sunday.
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Are we supposed to be overjoyed that the Federal Food and Drug Administration has authorized the purchase of up to 4 million doses of a flu vaccine made in Germany and not licensed in the United States?
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US health officials said Friday they do not expect a flu-shot shortage in the wake of a leading flu vaccine maker&#39;s announcement that it would hold up millions of doses because several batches were contaminated.
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Production breakdowns at Chiron Corp.'s manufacturing plant in Great Britain meant the U.S. Food and Drug Administration could not guarantee the safety of any of the company's flu vaccine this year, the ...
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The shortage of flu vaccine that caught US health officials by surprise two weeks ago was both predictable and preventable. It was predictable because some health officials have warned for years that reliance
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The flu vaccine is not the only vaccine that Americans could find in short supply due to a lack of enough manufacturing facilities licensed by the US Food and Drug Administration.
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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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British health officials said Friday 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 ...
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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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The unexpected suspension of Chiron&#39;s production of flu vaccine created a sudden shortage of the supply available to Americans.
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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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Health officials predict a severe flu vaccine shortage after an Emeryville company announced Tuesday that it had halted shipment of 48 million doses because of fear of contamination.
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The U.S. Congress began  investigating on Wednesday whether the U.S. Food and Drug  Administration overlooked problems at a British plant that led  to the withdrawal of half the country's flu vaccine supply.
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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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The announcement came last week: Flu vaccine shortage. Chiron Corporationâs flu vaccine facility in Liverpool, England, had its license suspended for three months by British health regulators because of contamination problems.