Thursday, July 19, 2007

Sanofi flu vaccine plant to triple US production

(Reuters) - The vaccine arm of Sanofi-Aventis is the only U.S.-based
producer of injectable flu vaccine. The plant will produce 150
million doses a year after the new 140,000-square-foot facility comes on line by 2010.




The $150 million facility will also be capable of producing
vaccine against pandemic strains of flu. Experts expect a
pandemic of influenza of some sort and the No. 1 suspect is the
H5N1 avian flu virus, which has so far infected 318 people and
killed 192 of them.


Read more at Reuters.com Government Filings News

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