Sanofi Wins Contract for Eggs in Flu Shot
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The US government on Tuesday awarded Sanofi-Aventis (SASY.PA: Quote, Profile, Research) a contract worth up to $41 million through 2008 to ensure that enough eggs are available for future flu vaccine production.
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Data on Sanofi-Aventis's   experimental bird flu vaccine shows higher doses worked better, but it is unclear whether those results prove the product's effectiveness, U.S. regulatory staff said in documents released on Monday.
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ID Biomedical Corp.   signed a 10-year U.S. distribution deal for its Fluviral drug that could reap sales of &#36;2.3 billion and help U.S. authorities fill a flu vaccine shortage, the company said on Monday.
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Chiron Corp. has won a contract to  develop a human vaccine against a strain of bird flu that can  infect people and "has the potential to trigger a modern-day  pandemic," the U.S. government said on Tuesday.
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A US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) advisory panel voted unanimously on Wednesday that Sanofi-Aventis Menactra vaccine is safe and effective for use in patients aged 11 to 55 years for the prevention of bacterial meningitis.
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British pharmaceutical group GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) has reported a &quot;breakthrough&quot; in trials of a vaccine to combat a lethal strain of bird flu in humans.
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A panel of experts will meet on Tuesday to consider whether the Food and Drug Administration should approve Sanofi-Aventis' experimental bird flu vaccine, which could become the first such product cleared for the U.S. market.
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A panel of US experts on Wednesday unanimously agreed that a new Sanofi-Aventis meningitis vaccine has been shown to be safe and effective, but said follow-up data was needed.
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Chiron Corp. CHIR.O has won a  contract to develop a human vaccine against a strain of bird  flu that can infect people and "has the potential to trigger a  modern-day pandemic," the U.S. government said on Tuesday.
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Indonesia, the country hardest hit by bird flu, signed a preliminary deal Wednesday with U.S. drug manufacturer Baxter Healthcare Corp. to develop a human bird flu vaccine.
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Data on Sanofi-Aventis' experimental bird flu vaccine shows higher doses worked better, but it is unclear whether those results prove the product's effectiveness, U.S. Food and Drug Administration staff said in documents released on Monday.
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The US Health and Human Services Department said on Tuesday it had ordered 2 million doses of avian influenza vaccine from Aventis Pasteur Inc.
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TORONTO - The chief executive of Canada&#39;s pandemic influenza vaccine manufacturer says he believes the federal government will fund development and testing of a candidate vaccine for the avian flu strain known as H5N1.
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European regulators have given a green  light to the first two avian influenza vaccines for use in  birds, the European Medicines Agency said on Friday.
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The US Department of Health and Human Services has awarded a contract to Aventis Pasteur Inc. to make and store two million doses of avian influenza H5N1 vaccine, it was announced Tuesday.
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MedImmune Inc. will provide an additional 1 million doses of its FluMist nasal spray vaccine to the U.S. market this year to help the country cope with a shortage of flu shots, health officials said on Thursday.
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US health officials agreed to buy 1.2 million doses of influenza vaccine made by GlaxoSmithKline on Tuesday and said another 2.8 million doses from the company will be available later during the flu season.