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Article: United States finds flu vaccine it hopes to buy abroad.
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- Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
- Article date:
- October 29, 2004
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By Stephen Smith, The Boston Globe Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Oct. 29--The nation's top healthcare official, Tommy G. Thompson, announced yesterday that the federal government had found 5 million doses of flu vaccine in Germany and Canada that it will attempt to purchase to alleviate an unprecedented shortage of shots.
The announcement was the latest in an ongoing campaign by Bush administration representatives to reassure Americans that they are moving decisively after learning three weeks ago that about 46 million doses -- nearly half of the US vaccine supply -- would not be available this year, because British regulators had detected ...