11.   Intravenous immune globulin is used by tens of thousands of people with chronic deficiencies in their immune system and other disorders.

12.   Jean Truscott, the vice-president in charge of Patient Care at Concord Hospital, spent the morning filling syringes with rabies immune globulin and vaccine.

13.   Some complications can be modified with the injection of a natural substance known as vaccine immune globulin that is derived from the blood of people who have been inoculated.

14.   That is because plasma from tens of thousands to hundreds of thousands of donors is pooled before making products like immune globulin or clotting factor for hemophiliacs.

15.   The agency is also trying to obtain fresh vaccinia immune globulin, an official said.

16.   The American Red Cross also removed another Baxter intravenous immune globulin, called Polygam, last year.

17.   The first signs of a shortfall in immune globulin emerged early last year as back orders began stacking up at some companies.

18.   To remedy that, the agency sent inspectors to the Centeon plant in Kankakee, Ill., which made both albumin and intravenous immune globulin.

19.   To speed up release of immune globulin at manufacturers, the agency will waive certain requirements if they are in the public interest, Epstein said.

20.   Until now, the only form of prevention was from varicella-zoster immune globulin that is prepared from blood donors with high amounts of antibody to the virus.