It's starting to look as if this year's flu season could be a bad one. Influenza cases began a month early, a particularly nasty strain of the virus popped up too late to be included in vaccine preparations, and at least nine flu-stricken children in Colorado and Texas have died. Now comes word that vaccine manufacturers have shipped their entire inventory--enough for the usual quota of 80 million shots. But demand has been so high that some areas are beginning to see shortages.
Health officials say there's still a lot of vaccine in the distribution pipeline, and they're making plans...