Five Drug Companies Receive Over One Billion Dollars For Bird Flu Vaccine Research
May 6, 2006 by admin
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
In its continuing effort to develop a vaccine against a pandemic, the US government has awarded over one billion dollars in contracts to five drug companies to help them develop a bird flu vaccine as well as the technology to mass produce it in the event of a world wide pandemic.
The five companies to which the contracts have been awarded are Britain’s GlaxoSmithKline PLC, MedImmune Inc., Swiss firm Novartis Vaccines and Diagnostics, DynPort Vaccine Co. and Solvay Pharmaceuticals of Belgium.
“The announcement came a day after the White House released an action plan to counter any avian flu pandemic, amid fears that an outbreak could kill as many as two million Americans and cause economic havoc.”
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