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Just days after health officials announced that there would be plenty of flu vaccine to go around this winter, they now say there will only be enough to vaccinate those in "high risk" groups. The abrupt change came about because the British government shut down a single manufacturing plant in Liverpool that made approximately half of the U.S. flu vaccine supply. Most of the rest of the U.S. supply comes from one other company, Aventis. How is it that the flu vaccine supply is so dependent on so few sources, and what implications might the economics of vaccine making have for homeland security?

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