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Flu Vaccines for Everyone?
(From BusinessWeek Online)
Byline: Amy Tsao
Springtime is just around the corner, and with any luck, this year's flu will soon be gone. The 2003-04 season probably won't make the record books as the worst influenza outbreak in recent years, but its casualties are still expected to exceed the average of 20,000 deaths and 110,000 hospitalizations that the flu inflicts annually, according to the Center for Disease Control (CDC) in Atlanta. The government's immunization strategy also came in for new scrutiny. Supplies of flu vaccine ran short, and it turned out that the formula didn't target the most virulent strains of the virus making their way through the U.S.
The hot debate now is whether the nation should move toward universal -- or nearly universal -- vaccinations against flu. With the public riled up over the relative ineffectiveness of the government's anti-influenza campaign, experts expect the issue to be on the front burner at this year's meeting of…
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