Feds: 2.6 miilion more flu vaccines coming

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Thread from BonjourUSA has been locked. Maybe the MOD could re-open it and merge it. But the flu shots are from France, too....

Feds: 2.6 miilion more flu vaccines coming

By Laura Gilcrest

WASHNGTON (CBS.MW) -The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said Tuesday that it has secured another 2.6 million doses of flu vaccine from this year's only major supplier, Sanofi Aventis.

These additional doses will be shipped to the United States in January, said HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson in a news conference.

That brings the total available flu vaccines to about 58 million doses, including the additional Aventis (AVE: news, chart, profile) shipments and roughly two million doses of Medimmune's (MEDI: news, chart, profile) FluMist inhaled Flu vaccine.

Thompson said that about half of the existing U.S. flu vaccine supply has been distributed to health clinics and that the remaining 24 million vaccine doses will be distributed throughout the United States at a rate of about two to three million each week. .......... (more)

http://cbs.marketwatch.com/news/story.asp?guid=%7B039E316C%2D841E%2D447B%2D9E6C%2DB43B0B629F5C%7D&siteid=mktw

Do FReepers know that they can't get a flue shot without taking a French one :think: ?

on edit: Headline :)