Gov&#39;t buys $877M worth of anthrax vaccine
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HHS Secretary Tommy G. Thompson announced today that HHS has awarded a contract for $877.5 million to VaxGen, Inc. to manufacture and deliver 75 million doses of a new anthrax vaccine.
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BioPort Corp. of Lansing, Mich., yesterday dedicated a 150,000-square-foot facility in Frederick that is designed to produce 100 million anthrax vaccine doses when it becomes fully operational in two years.
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Dec 7, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - The federal government is buying 1.2 million doses of flu vaccine made in Germany to augment the strained US supply, the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced today.
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BRISBANE, Calif. -- A Brisbane company has been awarded an $877.5 million contract to supply 75 million doses of anthrax vaccine to the federal government, company officials said today.
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The U.S. government on Tuesday  awarded Sanofi-Aventis a contract worth up to $41 million  through 2008 to maintain a supply of eggs year-round that could  be used in flu vaccine production.
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Gov. Rod R. Blagojevich of Illinois, one of several leaders of state efforts to buy prescription drugs from outside the United States, says he has found at least 30,000 doses of flu vaccine
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Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said the government was immediately buying 1.2 million doses of the vaccine manufactured in Germany to help alleviate the shortage.
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California vaccine maker VaxGen Inc. will make a new and improved version of the anthrax vaccine for use in case of a biological attack, the U.S. government said on Thursday.
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U.S. health officials on Tuesday approved the importation of up to 4 million doses of influenza vaccine made by GlaxoSmithKline  , bringing the U.S. total to 65 million vaccines for this flu season.
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The US government has approved use of the experimental influenza vaccine Fluarix and agreed to purchase 1.2 million doses to help lessen the current shortage.
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A Canadian health official said Monday that Canada can provide 2 million doses of flu vaccine to remedy US&#39;s vaccine shortage.
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The U.S. government on Tuesday awarded Sanofi-Aventis a contract worth up to &#36;41 million through 2008 to maintain a supply of eggs year-round that could be used in flu vaccine production.
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The government awarded its first contract under the Project Bioshield program yesterday -- an $877 million deal with a small California company to make 75 million doses of a newly developed anthrax vaccine.
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A research team has been awarded a $3.5 million federal grant to use a molecular detective technique to study and potentially improve the military&#39;s anthrax vaccine.
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A Canadian company is offering to sell 1.2 million doses of surplus flu vaccine to the United States as Americans continue to flood across the border for shots.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. -- Florida is getting a big shipment of flu vaccine from the federal government and drug maker Aventis Pasteur -- but not right away.
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TORONTO -- Canadian health authorities have purchased an extra 145,000 doses of flu vaccine and are negotiating with a foreign supplier to import more if this season&#39;s high demand threatens to outstrip supplies.