US flu vaccine supply halved
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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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US officials confirm a stock of flu vaccine from the UK - nearly half the US annual supply -  is unusable.
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Flu shots are in short supply this year, after British regulators have suspended the license of flu vaccine maker Chiron, one of the main companies that produce the vaccine.
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BOSTON - The state Department of Public Health issued an order yesterday limiting distribution of the scarce influenza vaccine to people considered &quot;high risk&quot; for the virus.
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The US government announced Friday that nearly half of this year&#39;s flu vaccine supply will arrive about a month late because some doses may be contaminated.
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The announcement was a blow to U.S. health officials, who are scrambling to calm growing public alarm about vaccine shortages because of the loss of about half of the 100 million doses of flu vaccine the nation was expecting.
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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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The United States is facing a major shortage of flu vaccines after one of the world&#39;s leading suppliers said it would not provide any this season.
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The demand for flu vaccine was so great last year that the Carter County Health Department and most area doctors had their supplies depleted by the middle of December.
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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.
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Two months ago throughout the United States, people waited in line for hours just to get a flu shot. Now that the supply of vaccine has broadened, it seems few people are still waiting, the Associated Press reported.
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LONDON - U.S. health officials warned Tuesday of major flu shot shortages after British health officials abruptly pulled the license of the maker of half the U.S...
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LONDON - Flu shot shipments by a major vaccine supplier were blocked by British health authorities Tuesday just ahead of the flu season, immediately raising worries that there will be enough vaccine this year.   "The implications may be significant...
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Unlike last year when health officials urged more people to get flu vaccines, authorities are asking the public to save the supplies for those most at risk after half of the nation&#39;s anticipated supply of vaccine became unavailable last week.
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The company that makes half the flu  vaccine used in the United States said on Tuesday it will not  supply any vaccine for the coming flu season because of  problems at its plant in Britain, throwing a major U.S. flu  drive into disarray.
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Top federal health officials yesterday said the United States likely will have only half its expected supply of flu vaccine this year, and that most
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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.