Article: Cangene Gets $143M HHS Contract For Anthrax Drug.

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Two months after getting a $362 million contract for its botulism treatment under the U.S. government's Project BioShield, Canadian firm Cangene Corp. has added a separate deal, valued at $143.8 million, for its anthrax product.

The Department of Health and Human Services exercised its option from a September 2005 agreement to purchase, over a three-year period, 10,000 doses of Cangene's anthrax immune globulin (AIG). That decision followed the completion of successful preliminary efficacy testing of the drug.

AIG, an antibody derived from donors immunized with the anthrax vaccine, is a hyperimmune product designed to treat ...

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