HHS to spend $877 million on new anthrax vaccine
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Nov 4, 2004 (CIDRAP News) - Federal health officials today announced the award of an $877 million contract for 75 million doses of a new anthrax vaccine to protect the public and improve on the existing vaccine used by the military.
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About 22.4 million doses of Aventis Pasteur flu vaccine that have not been shipped to customers will be redirected to public health departments, nursing homes and veterans hospitals to serve those most at risk, health officials said Tuesday.
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The $40 million high-security laboratory will test and develop new vaccines and treatments to defend the public against bioterrorism, officials announced Tuesday.  -The Washington Post
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The federal government awarded an $878 million anthrax vaccine contract to a Brisbane biotech company Thursday, ordering a stockpile of 75 million doses to guard against terrorist attacks.
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The government has agreed to spend as much as $1.6 billion to buy millions of doses of a smallpox vaccine tailored for people with impaired immunity.
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Instead, five years after anthrax attacks left five dead, sickened 17 and panicked the country, the nearly $1 billion contract awarded by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to a tiny and struggling San Francisco Bay Area biotechnology company is plagued with misfortune and delays.
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WASHINGTON Nov 4, 2004 - The government said Thursday it is purchasing 75 million doses of a new generation anthrax vaccine under an $877.
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BioPort Corp. of Lansing, Mich., 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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WASHINGTON Seventy-five (m) million doses of the next generation anthrax vaccine are to be made for the government by a California biotech company.
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Vaccinating children against chickenpox saves the U.S. health care system nearly $100 million a year in reduced hospitalizations for severe cases of the itchy disease, a study found...
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Chicago - Vaccinating children against chicken pox saves the US health care system nearly $100-million a year in reduced hospital visits for severe cases of the itchy disease, a study found.
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The State Government is set to spend more than $3 million on new sterilisation equipment at seven public hospitals to prevent a repeat of this week&#39;s Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease contamination scare.
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The United States has found 5 million doses of influenza vaccine from GlaxoSmithKline Plc in Germany and ID Biomedical in Canada and is trying to get them for Americans, Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson said on Thursday.
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VaxGen (VXGN:OTC - news - research) said Thursday that it had received a US government contract to supply 75 million doses of anthrax vaccine for civilians.
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Federal health officials are potentially wasting a stockpile of anthrax vaccine worth more than $100 million, according to a government report to be released today.
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Vaccinating children against chickenpox saves the US health care system nearly $100 million a year in reduced hospitalizations for severe cases of the itchy disease, a study found.
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The U.S. Health and Human Services  Department said on Tuesday it had ordered 2 million doses of  avian influenza vaccine from Aventis Pasteur Inc.   .