The flu vaccine is not the only vaccine that Americans could find in short supply due to a lack of enough manufacturing facilities licensed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration. In the past six years there have been U.S. shortages of more than half of the 12 recommended childhood vaccines, and there could be more.
Because of low supplies, Americans have faced shortages of vaccines against cholera, plague, rotavirus, adenovirus, polio, measles, mumps, rubella, chickenpox, diphtheria, meningitis, hepatitis B and other serious diseases in recent years....
Jennifer Brower is a science and technology policy analyst at the RAND Corp., a nonprofit research organization, and helped prepare sections of the Gilmore Commission reports on bioterrorism threats.
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