Germany faces chickenpox jab shortage after GSK problems

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Germany faces chickenpox jab shortage after GSK problems

<p><a href="http://news.yahoo.com/germany-faces-chickenpox-jab-shortage-gsk-problems-184828496--finance.html"><img src="http://l3.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/llaT1Bw4HSzxo_pujahj7g--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7Zmk9ZmlsbDtoPTg2O3E9NzU7dz0xMzA-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/Reuters/2014-01-27T184828Z_1_CBREA0Q1G9500_RTROPTP_2_GSK-CHINA-UCB.JPG" width="130" height="86" alt="A Chinese employee walks into a GSK office in Beijing" align="left" title="A Chinese employee walks into a GSK office in Beijing" border="0" /></a>German doctors have been told to ration two chickenpox vaccines for children after drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline stopped deliveries, saying production quality standards had not been met. Healthcare regulators have issued guidelines to physicians to deal with shortages of Priorix-Tetra, a combined vaccine for measles, mumps, rubella and varicella (chickenpox) known as MMRV; Their advice to doctors include using MMR vaccines instead of MMRV for initial shots, and delaying booster jabs. A spokeswoman for GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) in Germany said it decided to stop all chickenpox vaccine deliveries after it found internal production quality standards had not been met, without elaborating.</p><br clear="all"/>

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