CDC: Tainted flu vaccine won&#39;t cause shortage
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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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The US Food and Drug Administration has confirmed that none of the flu vaccine quarantined by British officials is safe for use. An FDA spokeswoman says agency personnel have inspected and rejected all 46
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The Food and Drug Administration said Monday the agency had no early indications that there were serious problems at a British vaccine company that was supposed to supply half of the U.S. flu vaccine.
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A major maker of influenza vaccines for the United States market said it has found that some of its new supplies are contaminated, delaying release of some 50 million doses, the New York Times reported Friday.
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There&#39;s no health crisis in the United States despite the flu shot shortage, Secretary of Health and Human Services Tommy Thompson told reporters Monday.
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The nation&#39;s supply of vaccine for the impending flu season took a big hit Thursday when Chiron Corp. announced it had found tainted doses in its factory.
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WASHINGTON - The Food and Drug Administration is unlikely to clear influenza vaccine made by Chiron Corp. as safe for Americans to use this flu season, Dr...
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None of Chiron Corp.'s CHIR.O flu  vaccine made at a British plant is safe, which means the U.S.  flu vaccine supply will be half of what was expected, U.S.  health officials said on Friday.
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WASHINGTON - The reddish bacterium to blame for this yearâs shortage of flu vaccine has a colorful history. Until the 1960s, Serratia marcescens was considered harmless - so safe, in fact, that the military
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LYNDEN, Wash. -- A nurse&#39;s flu shots suspected of being fake have turned out to be real after all. A US Food and Drug Administration lab in Cincinnati found the sample of vaccine sold by the woman at three
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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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The FDA says it did not have any early warning that something may be seriously wrong with the USA&#39;s delivery of 48 million flu vaccine doses from Chiron&#39;s Liverpool (UK) plant.
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The Food and Drug Administration is unlikely to clear influenza vaccine made by Chiron Corp. as safe for Americans to use this flu season, Dr. Lester M. Crawford, the agency's acting commissioner, said Friday. It was unclear whether the lack of vaccine might lead to more flu deaths this year.
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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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U.S. health officials said they do not expect a flu shot shortage after a leading flu vaccine maker warned that it would hold up millions of doses because several batches were contaminated.
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The Food and Drug Administration uncovered contamination and unsanitary conditions at a British flu vaccine manufacturing plant in 2003 but failed to re-inspect it until similar problems caused the loss of half the U.S. vaccine supply in October, the top FDA official said Wednesday.
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The shortage of flu vaccine in the United States is &quot;not a health crisis,&quot; Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said, and he urged people to be patient as the government works to reallocate the nation&#39;s limited number of vaccines.