Showing posts with label Merck. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Merck. Show all posts

Thursday, December 13, 2007

While Bush is vetoing...

Merck, one of the largest pharmaceutical companies in the world, has pulled almost a million doses of a children's vaccine off the market, but still claims there is no threat to the general public. We'll see how this turns out.

From MSNBC:

Day vaccine maker Merck announced they are issuing a precautionary recall of close to a million doses of their Hib vaccine after a Pennsylvania factory developed a sterilization problem...

Merck officials say the vaccine itself does not appear to be contaminated but there will be a shortage while they work on their sterilization problem. CDC officials say this is not a health threat and there have not been any adverse events reported.

However, this is not a "no risk" situation.