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BirMex - http://www.birmex.gob.mx/

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Biological Laboratories Reagents and Mexico, SA de CV (Birmex) is a company owned by the
Federal Government of Mexico that develops, produces and sells imported vaccines, sera and
heterologous clinical diagnostic products.

To meet the demand of the Mexican market, Birmex also sells vaccines, immunoglobulins and
diagnostic products manufactured by other companies.

Faced with the challenges of the future, Birmex is developing new vaccines with modern
technology to complement its service to its customers.

Bruce Japsen | Tribune staff reporter
11:43 AM CDT, May 7, 2009

Baxter International Inc. confirmed today that it has received a strain of the swine flu virus and is
"taking all of the appropriate steps necessary to prepare for a large scale vaccine production," the
company said in a statement to the Tribune.

The Obama administration has yet to decide whether any large scale manufacturing of dosages is
even necessary or whether any stockpile contracts would even be awarded. But Deerfield-based
Baxter and several other vaccine makers this week are receiving strains of the virus to begin
testing.

"Baxter can confirm that we are working on a vaccine and we have received a strain for testing
and evaluation," said Baxter spokesman Christopher Bona. "We need to evaluate the strain."

The task of developing a vaccine begins for Baxter after the strain arrives at its Vienna research
and development labs. The virus arrived via flight from Atlanta, where epidemiologists from the
U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have been tracking the spread of the virus.
Baxter would not say when its researchers obtained the virus strains.

"It could take three to four weeks to evaluate the growth characteristics of the strain in the vero
cell culture," Bona said in an interview earlier this week.

Ill-based Baxter working on swine flu vaccine
« on: April 25, 2009, 11:39:12 PM »
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Ill-based Baxter working on swine flu vaccine

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Specialty drug maker Baxter International Inc. will work with the World Health Organization to
develop a vaccine that could stem an outbreak of a deadly swine flu strain in Mexico.

Baxter spokesman Christopher Bona said Saturday that the Deerfield, Ill.-based company has
asked the WHO for a sample of the flu strain.