] Earlier Tuesday, another top health official said the FDA
] (news - web sites) is in "active negotiations" with a
] Canadian manufacturer to obtain an extra 1.5 million
] doses of flu vaccine. Dr. Anthony Fauci, director of the
] National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases
] (news - web sites), said in an interview "it's possible"
] the vaccine from ID Biomedical would make it to American
] consumers this flu season.

So, just to set the record straight on this, the US flu vaccine suppies come from Chiron (the ones that were contaminated) made in the UK (and the contamination was caught by them there, not by anyone here), from Aventis Pasteur, a French Company, and now we're talking to a Canadian company.

Where are all those self important US pharmaceutical compaines? The ones who are so up in arms about drug reimportation? National health issue here and I don't see Merck stepping up to bat...