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... as if this should be a surprise? What with the Swine Flu grabbing all of the headlines, it should be expected that those all-important doses of vaccine would be in short supply.
Sanofi Pasteur (pharm company) says that it has shipped more than half of its 50.5 million doses of its seasonal flu vaccine,but that it could be as late as November before the remainder are sent out.
Cary attributed part of the backlog at Sanofi Pasteur to its simultaneous production of 75.5 million doses of the swine — or H1N1 — vaccine for the United States. Also contributing to the delay is the fact that this year's seasonal flu vaccine includes a strain that develops more slowly in laboratories, she said.
But "everybody who ordered vaccine from us will be getting it," Cary
said. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091001/ap_on_he_me/us_flu_vaccine_delay
