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Letter: Smallpox tender

Published 15 November 2006

From Tracy Paczkowski, Acambis

In your article on biodefence you state: “An order is also expected for 20 million doses of an improved smallpox vaccine from the Danish firm Bavarian Nordic” (7 October, p 18). In fact, two companies have bid for this order: Acambis is the other. Both companies have an equal shot.

Cambridge, Massachusetts, US

Issue no. 2578 published 18 November 2006

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