The Birth Of A Pandemic

Occasionally a major genetic shift in the influenza virus results in a deadly new virus strain to which the human population does not have immunity, and a global pandemic outbreak occurs…. Public health officials and the scientific community agree that the world is long overdue for a pandemic influenza outbreak.

Sanofi Pasteur, Jan. 7, 2004

In an announcement two years ago, pharmaceutical companies Aventis and Crucell revealed that they had agreed to further develop and commercialize influenza vaccine products based on PER.C6™ cell line technology. (1) 

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