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Flu-vaccine shortage puts rural areas in North Georgia at risk.
Byline: Norman Arey
Oct. 31--SUMMERVILLE, Ga. -- The start of flu season has been a cause for celebration in Chattooga County for years.
"Each year, we have people lining up for the first two or three days of flu season to get their shots," said Chattooga Health Department nurse manager Mitzi Smith. "They were always happy, some were seeing people they hadn't seen since last flu season, and it was a very positive atmosphere."
There was no flu shot celebration in Summerville this fall. Nor in any of the other North Georgia counties.
As bad as the shortage of flu vaccines is in the metropolitan areas of the state, the northern rural areas are suffering even more. Most of the rural counties in the northern half of the state ordered vaccine supplies from Chiron Corp. of England, which marketed its vaccine slightly cheaper than that made by Aventis Pasteur, the other major manufacturer of flu shots. The 46 million doses manufactured by Chiron were impounded because of contamination, cutting roughly in half the supplies headed for the United States.
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Source: HighBeam Research, Flu-vaccine shortage puts rural areas in North Georgia at risk.
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