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...home? - With reporting by Valeria Korchagina A Bit Of Healthy Competition I f one drug firm sneezes, does the whole world catch the flu? U.S. health authorities were scrambling to answer that question last week after a severe shortage of flu vaccines sparked consumer panic. U.S. drug company Chiron, which produces almost half the 100 million doses for the U.S., had earlier said it would not be able to deliver any this year after British authorities suspended Chiron's license, saying that the process used in a Liverpool plant didn't meet British standards. Enter France's Aventis Pasteur, Chiron...
Contamination at the Chiron Corporation plant in Liverpool, England, which manufactures about 50 percent of the United States’ flu vaccination supply, caused the shortage...
British health authorities suspended Chiron Corporation’s manufacturing license for three months...
...doses UHS ordered, 8,000 were slated to come from Chiron. The other 6,000 have already arrived as scheduled from another supplier...
...addition to meeting with respected leaders and celebrities such as Colin Powell, Quincy Jones, Maya Angelou, Morgan Freeman, Alicia Keys, Chris Tucker and Jesse Jackson, Gates also interviewed the not-so-famous, such as Army Sergeant Major Kenneth Wilcox, based at Fort Benning in Georgia, and Kalais Chiron Hunt (a.k.a. Eric Edwards), a prisoner in Chicago’s Cook County Jail...