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Flu vaccine offered at up to 10 times normal prices - USATODAY.com via Yahoo! News via Yahoo! News Thu Oct 14
Pharmacy Buyers Report Flu Vaccine Price Gouging Some Prices Are 10 Times Higher - NBC 10 Philadelphia via Yahoo! News Wed Oct 13
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USATODAY.com - Flu vaccine offered at up to 10 times normal prices
Some distributors of flu vaccine are offering to sell doses at prices as much as 10 times normal, prompting angry reactions from pharmacists and lawsuits from at least two states. ... Flu vaccine offered at up to 10 times normal prices ... Wednesday that they had been offered flu vaccine for prices ranging from $400 to $900 a 10-dose vial ...
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. Pandemic Risk Spurs Flu Vaccine Planning

111 2004

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13922-2004Oct31.html

The total global capacity for flu vaccine is 300 million doses, and it would take at least six months to develop a new vaccine to fight a pandemic.
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World oil demand estimate raised

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/3554462.stm

11 August, 2004, 12:17 GMT 13:17 UK

The IEA said in its monthly oil market report that demand for oil was running at 82.2 million barrels a day, 750,000 more than previously thought.

Demand growth this year is running at its fastest level in 24 years, the Paris-based organisation said.

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1117 Flu vaccine shortage might continue into 2005

http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/drugs/2004-11-16-flu-vaccine-shortage_x.htm
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. FLU VACCINE MAKERS
Flu vaccines generated about $1 billion in worldwide sales last year, and the market is expected to double by 2007. Major manufacturers and where they produced vaccine for the current flu season:
Maker Country Doses (in millions)
Aventis France 60-70 *1
Aventis USA 58
Chiron U.K. 48 *2
Chiron Germany, Italy 37 *3
Denka Seiken, Kaketsuken, Biken, Kitasato Institute Japan 40
GlaxoSmithKline Germany 30 *4
CSL Limited Australia 20
ID Biomedical Canada 10
Berna Biotech Switzerland, Spain 5
MedImmune U.K. and USA 3
Dong Shin Pharmaceutical South Korea 1.8
Solvay Pharmaceuticals The Netherlands NA
Typharm China NA
*1 Estimate by Natexis Bleichroeder;
*2 Headed for U.S. market, declared unsafe;
*3 For 2003; *4 So far this year. Sources: The companies, World Health Organization
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. In the meantime, the FDA is seeking more vaccine for this year. It has 61 million doses. Before Chiron's woes, it expected 100 million, up from 83 million last year.

Last year, flu vaccine makers made almost 300 million doses for the global market. Asian manufacturers, which produce mainly for domestic markets, don't offer much hope for excess capacity. That might leave the USA to look at European and North American suppliers:
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