| ■ Companies start shipping U.S. flu vaccines | 2010.07.30 |
| Two flu vaccine makers said on Friday they had started shipping supplies for the U.S. market, one of the earliest starts ever to distributing seasonal influenza vaccine. And U.S. officials said they were changing the labeling on a vaccine made by Australia's CSL Ltd because it appears to have caused a higher than usual rate of seizures in children. Sanofi Aventis said it was shipping 70 million doses of seasonal flu vaccine -- its largest production run ever -- and GlaxoSmithKline said it was shipping 30 million doses of partner ID Biomedical's FluLaval vaccine. |