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Influenza—that perennial scourge of the very young, the very old, and the very stressed—is almost here again, but our nation is ill-prepared to defend itself against the viral threat. This fall the supply of vaccine, America’s first line of defense...
The immediate cause of the disastrous shortage—reportedly the safety failures at an English plant of the Chiron Corporation—are just a symptom of a larger problem that has been allowed to fester for years. Over the last decade, the number of suppliers of the flu...
For Harvard students, the vaccination shortage means that the prospects of catching the flu are unusually high this year. UHS, with its roughly 8,400 doses of the vaccine, announced that it will not vaccinate otherwise healthy students in the foreseeable future. No doubt, healthy Harvardians will survive the flu...
What about bird flu? This year's flu shots (designed last spring) were not meant to protect against the bird flu that is infecting chickens and ducks and some people in Thailand and Malaysia. There is still no vaccine for bird flu.
48 million Number of doses of flu vaccine that were removed from the U.S. market out of 100 million total