Anonymous - 10-20-2004 at 12:06 AM
http://www.10news.com/health/3833951/detail.html
Mexican Clinic Offers Flu Shot For $15
October 19, 2004
SAN DIEGO -- Last Saturday, people lined up in Mission Valley to get a flu shot. The lines have become the norm at places where the vaccine is being
offered.
But, 10News found a place where anyone can get the shot where there is no waiting and no shortages.
"We do have the vaccine at this moment," said Dr. Enrique Chacon, from Grupo Pediatrico de Tijuana.
In fact, the clinic has a refrigerator full of the vaccine ready for anyone who comes into the clinic in Tijuana, Mexico.
Chacon said, "We do have a lot of it. People don't come to Mexico to get it. My recommendation is come here and get it. It's a cheap vaccine."
Chacon said his clinic is offering the shot to anyone from either side of the border for $15. As of now, there's no shortage of the vaccine in Mexico.
"I have vaccinated some people who live actually in California. We have the same vaccine the United States uses," Chacon said.
The clinic and many others south of the border are buying the flu vaccine from a lab in France. According to Chacon, it is the same shot being offered
in places such as San Diego.
But unlike clinics in San Diego, there are no lines in Chacon's waiting room, no restrictions on who can get the shots and plenty of them to go
around.
Grupo Pediatrico de Tijuana
Second Floor
Telephone: 011-52-664-634-6820
A Word of Caution
bajaloco - 10-20-2004 at 08:46 AM
I have read that some of the contaminated vaccine is being sold. Buyer beware...The manufacturer of the contaminated vaccine is? Chiron Corp., which
makes flu vaccine at a plant in Liverpool, England.
Let's see here
jrbaja - 10-20-2004 at 09:09 AM
americans, coming to Mexico, to buy vaccines manufactured in france because they can't get it in the "most technologically advanced country in the
world".
What are you people thinking ??