Word: vaccinees
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
What is harder to fathom is why this is happening again. After all, there have been supply problems with flu vaccines for each of the past four years. Several government and academic reports have addressed the issue since 2000, when manufacturing glitches resulted in an almost two-month-long delay...
Congress turned out to be tone deaf in responding to the crisis. Not long after the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) asked doctors to vaccinate only those at highest risk of deadly complications--people over 65, pregnant women, young children and patients with chronic medical conditions--the office of Dr...
Ultimately, however, the only way to make flu-vaccine supplies more reliable may be to get rid of the chicken eggs. Several companies are studying methods of growing the virus in mammalian-cell cultures, and at least one biotech company is experimenting with using genetic-engineering techniques to streamline the...
In the meantime, some local health authorities are setting up lotteries to distribute their allotments of flu vaccine. Mary- land's Montgomery County, taking advantage of a hotline established after the 2001 anthrax attacks, started taking names on the telephone and over the Internet and the first day registered 14...
It is 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...