Think the shortage of flu vaccine is just bad luck?

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A18795-2004Oct8.html

Britain: U.S. Told Of Vaccine Shortage

LONDON, Oct. 8 -- British health officials said Friday that their American counterparts were informed in mid-September that problems at a drug manufacturing plant in northwest England could disrupt influenza vaccine supplies to the United States.

And to fully understand how the vaccine problem was yet another leadership failure by the Bush administration check the conclusion and reccomendations starting on page 22 of this GAO report (PDF)<http://aging.senate.gov/events/hr67gao.pdf> compiled in 2001 and entitled FLU VACCINE: Supply Problems Heighten Need to Ensure Access for High-Risk People.

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Doug
Time he flu the coop.
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