Article: Acambis: Just One Part Of New Vaccine Development.

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WASHINGTON - On the same day Acambis plc announced that it had suspended trials for its lead smallpox vaccine, Thomas Monath, the company's chief scientific officer at its facility in Cambridge, Mass., described breakthroughs in new vaccine development.

Monath, speaking Tuesday at the State of the Art in Biodefense Vaccines and Therapeutics symposium in Washington, described the smallpox vaccine as an improvement to the old Dryvax smallpox vaccine. He said the company is still pursuing the fulfillment of a stockpile of 209 million doses for the U.S. government.

But that smallpox vaccine does not represent Acambis' ...

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