UMN: Bio-Med Library - Public Health: U.S. Asks Chiron to Develop Bird Flu Vaccine

From Reuters/Yahoo News:
Tue Aug 17,10:55 AM ET

Chiron Corp. has won a contract to develop a human vaccine against a strain of bird flu that can infect people and "has the potential to trigger a modern-day pandemic," the U.S. government said on Tuesday.

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases said it had awarded Chiron, of Emeryville, California, the contract to develop a vaccine against the H9N2 strain of avian influenza virus.

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U.S. Asks Chiron to Develop Bird Flu Vaccine

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