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About 40 million doses of swine flu vaccine worth about $260 million will be destroyed because it's past the expiration date, says the U.S. Food and Drug Administration.
The amount of the outdated vaccine, which will be incinerated, is more than twice the usual surplus.
One government estimate suggests that about 30 million more swine flu vaccine doses could expire and have to be destroyed. If that's the case, it means that more than 43 percent of the total supply of swine flu vaccine for the U.S. public will have gone to
waste.
The U.S. obtained about 162 million doses of swine flu vaccine for the general public and another 36 million doses for the military and other countries. But the swine flu epidemic was not as dangerous as originally
feared.
Source
healthfinder.gov
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