Flu Vaccine Run-Around: Who You Gonna Call?
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Description: US Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson says that when all else fails, call the government if you can&#39;t find a flu shot.
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With nearly half the nationâs supply of flu vaccine quarantined, where can Americans find the doses that are available? Health officials urge them not to even try unless they fall into one of the groups at risk of serious illness from flu.
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Few companies make flu vaccines because they say they are more trouble than they are worth. By DAVID BROWN. Wyeth Pharmaceuticals doesn&#39;t make flu shots anymore, and it doesn&#39;t miss them.
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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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The staggering loss of half the nation&#39;s flu vaccine supply has turned medical advice on its head: Healthy Americans should skip flu shots, the government is urging, but only so the sick and elderly can get theirs.
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As the flu crisis stretched into its third week, complaints are building across the country that health officials are failing to distribute the remaining vaccine supply quickly or equitably.
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Of the Americans who most need a flu shot, fewer than half actually get one, federal health officials warned Thursday as they called for special attention to babies, toddlers and the elderly as vaccinations begin next month.
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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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Any Stearns County resident who is at high risk for the flu should call his or her clinic to try to get the vaccine, county officials say.
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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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(Sept. 29) -- Flu season is upon us. But the question is -- will there be enough flu vaccine to go around? Last year&#39;s shortage is causing a lot of people to worry.
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Only a few companies produce the vaccine known as the flu shot. When the UK announced that one company - accounting for half of the vaccines needed in the US - was having its license suspended due to contamination concerns - it created immediate concern.
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With flu shots in short supply in the U.S. this year, places that are able to offer them have been mobbed by vaccine seekers.
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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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The flu vaccine shortage that&#39;s stirred worries here and abroad could look mild compared to another public health crisis that might be waiting in the wings.
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The shortage of flu vaccine has become a major social issue in the United States, with thousands of elderly peopleâthose most at risk of life-threatening complications from influenzaâlining
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WASHINGTON Sept. 23, 2004 - Of the Americans who most need a flu shot, fewer than half actually get one, federal health officials warned Thursday as they called for special attention to babies, toddlers and the elderly as vaccinations begin next month.