FDA: beware of fake swine flu vaccine
Updated: Wednesday, 28 Oct 2009, 10:40 AM EDT
Published : Wednesday, 28 Oct 2009, 10:40 AM EDT
(CNN) - So far, the swine flu is widespread in 46 States and has killed more than a thousand Americans.
Right now, 22.4 million doses of swine flu vaccine are available in the United States, out of the potentially 250 million that may be needed for the pandemic.
The CDC admits that the situation is less than ideal.
"I think all of us are frustrated that we haven't had more vaccine, that we don't have more vaccine now. When the season is over, it will be a good time to look back and think of what could have been done differently or better."
But for the immediate future, people are trying to come up with a plan of their own; turning to the internet for a possible answer.
The food and drug administration is now warning these products are not only fakes, but dangerous.
Kitty Pilgrim has more on this growing problem in this internet health video report.
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