Emergent BioSolutions Finalizes Sale of Travel Health Business to Bavarian Nordic
With the transaction closed, Bavarian Nordic has acquired the rights to Vivotif®, the licensed typhoid vaccine, and Vaxchora®, the licensed cholera vaccine, as well as the development-stage chikungunya vaccine candidate CHIKV VLP. Bavarian Nordic also acquired manufacturing facilities in
“This deal achieves two significant outcomes key to our mission and future success,” said
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At Emergent, our mission is to protect and enhance life. For over 20 years, we’ve been at work defending people from things we hope will never happen—so we are prepared just in case they ever do. We provide solutions for complex and urgent public health threats through a portfolio of vaccines and therapeutics that we develop and manufacture for governments and consumers. We also offer a range of integrated contract development and manufacturing services for pharmaceutical and biotechnology customers. To learn more about our mission to protect or enhance lives, visit our website and follow us on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram.
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