B.C. may trash vaccine worth $20m
By Admin | April 22nd, 2010 | Category: Top Stories | 1 Comment »Rob Shaw Canwest News Service 04/21/2010 B.C. could throw away almost $20 million worth of H1N1 vaccine because it went unused during swine flu season and will soon expire. Only 40 per cent of B.C.’s population chose to be vaccinated against H1N1, which meant roughly 2.5 million of the 4.3 million doses ordered by B.C. were unused, said Ida Chong, minister of healthy living and sport. The government had planned to keep much of the leftover vaccine in case of another outbreak, because the doses [...]