Vaccine shortage prompts US to look abroad
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United States health officials, taking another step to ease the season&#39;s flu shot shortage, approved the importation of up to four million flu shot doses from Europe on Tuesday for patients willing to sign a consent form.
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The flu vaccine shortage might stretch into 2005 if one key US supplier cannot resume manufacturing in time. By Henry Barrios, The Bakersfield Californian via AP.
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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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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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Countries begin test programs--get ready for a facial scan the next time you take an overseas flight.
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The federal government is purchasing additional doses of flu vaccine from a foreign manufacturer to help relieve the US shortage. Up to 5 million doses are available from plants in Canada and Germany, but
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The US shortage of flu vaccine has been so troublesome to health officials that the World Health Organization has called a summit to help prevent it from happening again.
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While patients are panicking over a shortage of flu vaccine in the United States, vaccination programs in Europe are progressing smoothly.
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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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Two months after a flu vaccine shortage spread alarm across the country, a federal advisory panel recommended yesterday the government ease restrictions
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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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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.
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With increasing signs that bird flu is becoming established in Asia and a shortage of flu vaccine in America, health officials from several nations and more than a dozen
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With a shortage of flu vaccine across the country, Margaret Holmen and others from the Powers Lake Senior Citizens Center have been talking about going to Canada for their shots.
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The sudden, major flu vaccine shortage that shocked health authorities last week highlights two vulnerabilities in the nation&#39;s immunization system: a reliance on a few private manufacturers that use old technology, and government&#39;s faith that companies
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The local medical community is in a quandary over how to handle demand for flu shots after British health officials pulled the license of the maker of half the US vaccine supply and suspended shipments of its product.
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Long lines have formed at flu clinics in retail stores, and others are being canceled for lack of vaccine. The unexpected vaccine shortage has raised many questions about how people can best protect themselves.