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...annals of pharmaceutical fumbles--and there have been some real doozies--the flu-vaccine shortage of fall 2004 occupies a special place. That crisis began when California biotech company Chiron was forced to dump 48 million doses of its flu vaccine, nearly half the U.S. supply...
Reason: British health inspectors had detected bacterial contamination at Chiron's plant in Liverpool, England, and shuttered the facility. Grumpy lines formed at clinics across the U.S., and angry investors pounded the stock, while profits sank. As if that weren't bad enough, Chiron closed another plant in Germany last July for similar reasons. That closing didn't affect the U.S. vaccine supply, but it didn't exactly reassure investors...
...available to inoculate about 71 million people nationwide, according manufacturers cited in The New York Times. While this is fewer than the usual 80 million doses available, it’s an improvement from last year, when only 61 million inoculations could be given because of contamination at the Chiron Corporation plant in England, which manufactures about 50 percent of the United States’ flu vaccination supply. At Harvard, University Health Services (UHS) started this year’s round of flu vaccinations last week. “We have ordered 6,000 units,” said David...
...This year, we expected a demand of 13,000 and ordered 14,000 flu vaccinations,” he said. “We didn’t get the 7,000 from Chiron...
...already time to start planning for the 2005-06 flu season, and it's still unclear whether the U.S. will be in any better shape next year. Chiron says it isn't sure its production problems will be resolved by then, and no other drugmaker has stepped forward to take up the slack. One thing is certain: if nothing changes, we'll have flu vaccine shortages for years to come. --Reported by Perry Bacon Jr. and Elaine Shannon/Washington, Matthew Cooper/ with Bush, Paige Bowers/Atlanta, Simon Crittle and Sora Song/New York, Helen Gibson/London, Chris Maag/Cleveland, Ursula Sautter/Bonn and Monique Stringfellow/Paris