BMJ  2004;329:939 (23 October), doi:10.1136/bmj.329.7472.939-c

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It looks increasingly certain that the United States will enter the influenza season seriously short of vaccine, after a Food and Drug Administration team visiting Britain declared that 48 million potentially contaminated units of vaccine were 38unsafe for use.

The vaccines represented half of the United States's planned supply for this year. The manufacturer, the Chiron Corporation of California, had to close its Liverpool factory after its licence to produce Fluvirin vaccine was suspended by the United Kingdom's Medicines and Healthcare Products Regulatory Agency ( BMJ 2004;329: 876[Free Full Text], 16 Oct).

The vaccines have already been produced, but regulators fear that they are contaminated by the bacterium Serratia marcescens. Jesse Goodman, director of the FDA's Center for Biologics Evaluation and Research, visited the Liverpool factory last week to discover if any of . . . [Full text of this article]

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