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Shire announces vaccines alliance.(Shire Pharmaceuticals Group PLC)(Brief Article)

Vaccine Weekly

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2002 DEC 11 - (NewsRx.com & NewsRx.net) -- Shire Pharmaceuticals Group, plc, announced that it has entered into a commercial agreement with Berna Biotech, AG, of Switzerland.

Under the agreement, Shire will manufacture and supply its Fluviral influenza vaccine to Berna Biotech for sale in international territories excluding Europe and North America. In return, Berna Biotech will manufacture and supply its hepatitis B vaccines, Hepavax Gene and Bio-Hep B and make them available to Shire for exclusive sale in Europe.

Shire Biologics, part of the Shire Group, began its vaccine operations more than a decade ago when it purchased the vaccine operations of the Armand-Frappier Institute, which had been producing and selling vaccines for many years. Shire Biologics' current commercial products are Fluviral and Pacis for superficial bladder cancer.

Commenting on the agreement, Richard de Souza, director international, ...

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