Maker of FluMist Wants it Mandatory For Ages 5-18

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[s-A] [AltMedForum] Maker of FluMist Wants it Mandatory For Ages

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> Misty L. Trepke

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> Maker of FluMist wants product to be mandatory for ages 5 to 18!

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> http://www.newstarget.com/002335.html

> Friday, November 12, 2004 commentary:

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> MedImmune wants to make flu vaccine mandatory for children

> Continuing with conventional medicine's desire to dose our nation's

> children with a bewildering array of vaccines and psychoactive drugs

> (like Ritalin), the MedImmune company now wants its FluMist nasal

> vaccine to be given to all children between the ages of 5 and 18.

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> It's a fantastic plan for selling tens of millions of doses of

> FluMist. But it's a poor plan for actually protecting the health of

> the public: most flu vaccines are useless because they often target

> the wrong viral strain. Even worse, many pioneering doctors explain

> that annual vaccinations tend to weaken the human immune system,

> making it less capable of fighting off infection on its own.

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> News summary:

> Source:

> http://story.news./news?

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> unne_dc

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> * MedImmune's FluMist nasal vaccine should be included in the

> U.S. government's Vaccines for Children program, expanding its

> distribution to children over the age of 5 and teens, federal

> advisers said on Thursday.

> * MedImmune said the Advisory Committee on Immunization

> Practices meeting in Atlanta had expanded its recommendations on

> FluMist to include children and adolescents aged 5 to 18 for the

> 2005-2006 season.

> * The vaccine, a weakened version of the influenza virus

> dripped into the nose, is approved by the U.S. Food and Drug

> Administration (news - web sites) for healthy adults and children

> aged 5 to 50.

> * After poor sales last year, MedImmune cut its production of

> FluMist from 5 million doses last year to 2 million this year.

> * It squeezed out an extra 1 million doses, making 3 million,

> after Chiron Corp. lost its British license and 48 million flu shots

> due to contamination at a plant in Liverpool.

> * MedImmune said in June that only 900,000 doses of the vaccine

> were sold last season, of which 50 percent were returned because of

> poor demand.

> * It has lowered its price for the vaccine from by about half,

> to $16.00 wholesale per nonreturnable dose or $23.50 wholesale per

> returnable dose.

> * Chiron's troubles halved the estimated U.S. vaccine supply,

> but U.S. officials and companies making flu vaccine have brought it

> up to 61 million doses out of an anticipated 100 million doses.

> * Last year about 83 million Americans got vaccinated against

> influenza, which kills about 36,000 people in an average year and

> puts 200,000 into the hospital.

> * The federal government tries to buy some flu vaccine doses to

> make available to people in high need who cannot afford to pay.

> * The Vaccines for Children program supplies free vaccine to

> children enrolled in Medicaid, who lack insurance, and to American

> Indian or Alaskan Native children.

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