11. The smallpox vaccine is being manufactured by Acambis, a British company. 12. The vaccine was manufactured in a Lansing, Mich., laboratory originally owned by the Michigan State Health Department. 13. Vaccine companies say it normally takes years to develop and manufacture a vaccine. 14. Having small quantities of dangerous agents for research purposes would make the institute no more threatening than an ordinary pharmaceutical factory manufacturing vaccines, he said. 15. Iraq plans to refurbish a laboratory destroyed by U.N. weapons inspectors in order to manufacture vaccine for foot-and-mouth disease. 16. Some are the same companies that spurned the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention when it was seeking a firm to manufacture smallpox vaccine. 17. Drug companies are reluctant to begin trying to manufacture a vaccine before more is known about HIV. |