Posted on 05/26/2009 3:42:58 AM PDT by Born Conservative
Armed with a $190 million order from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Sanofi Pasteur could begin production of a swine flu vaccine at one of its two Swiftwater facilities as soon as next month.
Announcing the news Monday, Sanofi noted the order was issued under an existing pandemic stockpile contract with the U.S.
News comes just two weeks after the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a license for Sanofi's new, $150 million, 140,000-square-foot vaccine manufacturing plant at Swiftwater. That's where initial work would begin, while an existing plant at the complex continues work on seasonal flu vaccine. Ultimately, both could produce the new vaccine.
CEO Wayne Pisano called the order - expected to be the first of a series - "part of a major effort ... to support global public health efforts to prepare the world for the possibility of an influenza pandemic."
The firm also is in talks with other governments, as officials worldwide brace for the impact of the new A(H1N1) virus, commonly called swine flu.
For the American order, Sanofi is awaiting the arrival of the seed virus, needed for vaccine production, from the U.S. Centers and Disease Control and Prevention. Commercial production can begin following certification of Sanofi's working seed by the FDA, officials said.
The company has said it employs 2,200 at Swiftwater.
DO NOT TAKE THIS VACCINE UINDER ANY CIRCUMSTANCES. GO TO JAIL FIRST!
I worked with Pisano years ago. He’s a moron!
I think I’m recovering from a mild version of this bug anyway.
I read a science fiction book when I was in high school where the government injected everyone at birth with a virus and they had to go and get a shot every year so they wouldn’t die - population control.
One year the hero in the story missed his vaccine shot and he didn’t die.
I wonder if Pisano was a major ObaMao contributor.
Is that why you say don’t take this vaccine?
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