Thursday, June 14, 2007

U.S. gives companies cash to fix up vaccine plants

(Reuters) - WASHINGTON, June 14 - The U.S. government has given two vaccine makers, MedImmune Inc. and Sanofi-Aventis , $132.5 million to fix up facilities in the United States so that production can quickly switch to making a pandemic influenza vaccine.



Sanofi said on Thursday it had been awarded $77.4 million to redesign a plant in Pennsylvania and the Health and Human Services Department said it had given $55 million to MedImmune to retrofit its facilities in several states.


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