Flu-Shot Shortage Proving Big Worry

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WASHINGTON -- More than half of the many Americans with a relative who is at high risk of danger from getting the flu say they're worried about the vaccine shortage, according to an Associated Press poll about the crisis that has health officials scrambling for solutions and politicians blaming each other.

The U.S. flu vaccine shortage became public two weeks ago when British regulators cited contamination problems in closing one of the two companies that make vaccine for the U.S. market. That nearly cut in half the 100 million doses U.S. officials were expecting.

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Flu-Shot Shortage Proving Big Worry

Healthy Americans were urged to forgo shots so there would be enough for those at highest risk from influenza -- children from 6 months to 23 months, the elderly, the chronically i...

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