Drug firms hit out at vaccine secrecy_2
17 August 2012
Pharmaceutical companies are demanding answers from the government over its handling of the controversial smallpox vaccine contract.
They are baffled by the way the £32 million contract was awarded to a company headed a Labour Party donor.
The government claimed that Cambridge-based PowderJect was chosen because it was able to produce the type of vaccine needed to counter a possible terrorist threat.
A spokesperson for rival firm Acambis, which unsuccessfully tendered for the contract,...