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TOPIC: "Expired swine flu shots amount to $260 million loss" (Mike Stobbe, MSNBC, 7/1/10)


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"Expired swine flu shots amount to $260 million loss" (Mike Stobbe, MSNBC, 7/1/10)
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This is colossal waste of an incredibly important vaccine. 

PLEASE... If you know how to influence this, please please find a way to get the medicines to the needy rather than see it go into a dump.

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Read @ MSNBC.com

Expired swine flu shots amount to $260 million loss

40 million doses, a quarter of those produced for the U.S., to be destroyed

by MIKE STOBBE AP Medical Writer
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updated 7/1/2010 2:59:49 PM

ATLANTA — About a quarter of the swine flu vaccine produced for the U.S. public has expired — meaning that a whopping 40 million doses worth about $260 million are being written off as trash.

"It's a lot, by historical standards," said Jerry Weir, who oversees vaccine research and review for the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.

The outdated vaccine, some of which expired Wednesday, will be incinerated. The amount, as much as four times the usual leftover seasonal flu vaccine, likely sets a record. And that's not even all of it.

About 30 million more doses will expire later and may go unused, according to one government estimate. If all that vaccine expires, more than 43 percent of the supply for the U.S. public will have gone to waste.

More at the link.

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I honestly believe that meds supplied to the government are undermarked for expiry dates. Once it is out of their hand they dont exactly care about the shelf-life.. and it is even advantageous for them to get it out of the pipeline faster. Call me cynical, but do they really care?

There are zillions at risk in the world and can use this medicine if it can be brought to them soon enough, as in within the week.



-- Edited by Sanders on Thursday 1st of July 2010 10:56:29 PM

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