Thousands of MUSC’s vaccine destroyed

According to the company Novartis, a large lot of seasonal flu vaccine from Novartis heading to the Medical University of South Carolina was destroyed due to freezing during shipment to nation-wide distribution centers. Novartis has indicated that this supply of vaccine was rendered ineffective. 
  The Medical University of South Carolina’s Pharmacy department is looking for additional source but, according to officials the outlook is not very good. 
  Meantime, a poll by the Associated Press suggests that a third of polled parents don’t want their children vaccinated.  Some say they’re worried about side effects, even though nothing serious has turned up in tests so far. Others don’t see the swine flu as much of a threat.
  This morning, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius was on morning news programs urging parents to get their children vaccinated against the swine flu, calling it a “younger person’s flu.“