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PHILADELPHIA--Production of the nation's supply of flu vaccine has been delayed up to two months and supplies will be short during the best time to protect patients, pharmaceutical firms and public health officials said yesterday.
The companies blame that on late notification from the federal Centers for Disease Control (CDC) on what type of vaccine would be needed this year. The CDC says the problem stems from the fact that some of the viruses causing this year's flu take unusually long to cultivate for...
This year, Wyeth will be sending vaccine to physicians through early to mid November, said company spokesperson Audrey Ashby. Then it will take additional time to get people in for their shots.
The drug makers said they were late in gearing up vaccine production because of late notification from the CDC on the strains that will need to be targeted this flu season. Also, some of the strains targeted by the CDC require a vaccine that takes longer to produce than usual...
Like a biological vaccination, a vaccine program is a preventive measure -- an attempt to protect an uninfected disk from invasion by an uninvited program. Most software vaccines take advantage of the fact that computer viruses usually hide themselves in one of a few locations within the machine's control software...