prediction_'major_flu_shot_shortages_in_uk' why not * Prediction - Perfect_Storm * "Major_flu_shot_shortages in United_Kingdom". Tell / show One ...And_I_will_tell_you_how_wonder_you_are... 041019 ... a "point" US (United_States) confirms UK flu jabs unusable BBC News - Oct 16 2:02 AM US officials confirm a stock of flu vaccine from the UK - nearly half the US annual supply - is unusable. 041019 ... Yahoo! Search US deem UK flu vaccine unusable 16/10/2004 US health officials have confirmed that their entire stock of flu vaccine from a British producer is unsafe. http://www.dehavilland.co.uk/webhost.asp?wci=default&wcp=NationalNewsStoryPage&ItemID=3629909&ServiceID=8&filterid=10&searchid=8 041019 ... . Almost half the country's annual supply of flu vaccine is produced at Chiron's Liverpool plant, but US tests show that the British stock has been contaminated by the bacteria, serratia, which can cause blood poisoning and infections of the urinary and respiratory tracts. Around 48 million doses of the vaccine produced at the plant had been destined for use in the US. "All the lots produced by the plant are suspect at this point, and we cannot allow them to be used in the United States in the interest of public health," acting U.S. Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Lester Crawford told reporters. 041019 ... 21 Oct 2004 advertisement Northern Ireland — which usually orders 80 percent of its doses from U.S. drug maker Chiron Corp.’s factory in Liverpool — and the Republic of Ireland acknowledged difficulties obtaining enough doses of the vaccine as the flu season starts in the Northern Hemisphere. http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6300604/ 041021 ... 4 Oct 2004 Anger over flu jab shortage Doctors in Northern Ireland are furious at the Department of Health's handling of a flu vaccine shortage, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/3714928.stm 17:52 GMT 18:52 UK 041021 ... . "The number of vaccines which we have been told are available for our patients are miniscule compared to what we need," 041021 ... 7 Oct 2004 CNN.com - UK warns of flu jab shortages - Oct 7, 2004 Doctors' leaders in Britain are warning that the licence suspension of a major flu vaccine supplier will have a "significant impact" on the UK's immunization program. ... CNN.com. UK warns of flu jab shortages ... Corps said that the suspension would prevent it releasing any of the product during the 2004-05 flu season. ... www.cnn.com/2004/HEALTH/10/07/ internat.flu.vaccine - 47k - Cached - More from this site * 107 * 041023 what's it to you? who go blather from