Sanofi-Aventis, the French drug-maker with a plant in Swiftwater, Montore County, plans to donate 100 million doses of swine flu and bird flu vaccine to the World Health Organization for use in poor countries, reports the Pocono Record.

Sanofi also plans to sell additional quantities of pandemic flu vaccines at a discounted price to developing countries, as production capacity allows. Rival drugmaker GlaxoSmithKline PLC of Britain also has said it will do that, and has offered to donate 50 million doses of vaccine against swine flu to the WHO for distribution in developing countries.

Sanofi-Aventis, through its Sanofi Pasteur division based in Swiftwater, is the world's biggest vaccine maker. The company has two vaccine manufacturing plants there and one in Val de Reuil, France.

Original Souce: Pocono Record
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