After British health authorities su...

After British health authorities suspended the manufacturing license for the Chiron Corporation facility in Liverpool, England, the company announced that it will not ship its influenza vaccine (Fluvirin). Chiron anticipated sending up to 48 million doses of the vaccine to the United States, which is about undivided half of the U.S. vaccine store For more information about which patients are considered high risk and who should receive priority immunizations, make progress to http://www.cdc.gov/flu/protect/whoshouldget.htm#high. To read the American Academy of Family Physicians' (AAFP) recommendations of influenza vaccine, proceed to http://www.aafp.org/x14093.xml. More news about the canceled shipment is available online at http://www.chiron.com/media/pressreleases/index.html and http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Living/ap20041005_744.html.

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