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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US health officials Thursday said MedImmune Inc. has made available an additional 1 million doses of its FluMist nasal spray flu vaccine.
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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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MedImmune Inc. agreed to produce 3 million doses of its FluMist spray flu vaccine this season with the encouragement of federal health officials, but now it appears the company may sell only one-third that number of doses.
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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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Danish vaccine maker Bavarian Nordic   said on Monday it had won a U.S. government contract  for the manufacture and delivery of 20 million doses of the  company&#39;s smallpox vaccine, Imvamune.
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French drugs company Sanofi-Aventis is seeking European Union approval for a new type of influenza injection it says will protect the elderly.
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It&#39;s too late for this year&#39;s flu season, but a Canadian drug company yesterday said it has agreed to provide influenza vaccines to Henry Schein Inc.
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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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MedImmune Inc. will provide an additional 1 million doses of its FluMist nasal-spray vaccine this year to help the country overcome a shortage of flu shots, US health officials said yesterday.
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WASHINGTON Dec 6, 2004 - The government is purchasing additional doses of flu vaccine from a foreign manufacturer to help relieve the US shortage.
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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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Roche Holding AG said Monday it will produce enough doses of the drug Tamiflu to cover this year's influenza season.
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ID Biomedical Corp. signed long-term agreements with three of the largest US flu vaccine wholesalers, causing the firmâs shares to climb 9.2 percent.
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A first-generation experimental bird flu vaccine for use in humans from GlaxoSmithKline Plc has won outline support from European regulators.
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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 GSK.L GSK.N, bringing the  U.S. total to 65 million vaccines for this flu season.
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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.