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Vaccine Shortage to Boost FluMist Sales for Gaithersburg, Md.-Based MedImmune.

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| December 06, 2003 | COPYRIGHT 2007 The Baltimore Sun. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan. All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

Byline: William Patalon III

Dec. 6--Yesterday's disclosure that the U.S. supplies of flu vaccines may run short could give a short-term boost to MedImmune Inc.'s so-far disappointing FluMist nasal-spray flu vaccine.

But the Gaithersburg, Md.-based company and its marketing partner will have to slash the vaccine's high price if the new product is to achieve long-term success, according to an analyst who follows MedImmune.

Aventis SA of France, the largest maker of flu vaccines, and Chiron Corp., of California, said yesterday that reports that a more virulent strain of the influenza virus was circulating this year had spurred more people to seek…

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