US buys 195 million doses of swine flu vaccine…
July 23, 2009
US federal officials say the country has purchased 195 million doses of swine flu vaccine for its possible autumn vaccination campaign.
According to Reuters, the US A/H1N1 vaccine market is supplied by AstraZeneca’s MedImmune unit, Australia’s CSL Ltd, GlaxoSmithKline Plc, Novartis AG and Sanofi-Aventis SA.
According to Dr. Robin Robinson of the US Health and Human Services Department, a contract has also been made to get 120 million doses of adjuvant, a compound that increases the number of doses of vaccine needed.
He added that it would take until March 2010 to vaccinate all the country’s 300 million people with two doses each.
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