Vaccines

Sinovac Receives RMB 20 Million Purchase Order for Healive from China's Ministry of Health to Vaccinate Earthquake Victims

Published in Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA, June 15th, 2008

Sinovac Biotech Ltd. (AMEX:SVA), a leading provider of vaccines in China, announced that the Ministry of Health has purchased approximately RMB 20 million (US$2.86 million) of the Company's inactivated hepatitis A vaccine, Healive(R), to vaccinate people living in the disaster zone following the May 12th earthquake. Sinovac has delivered shipments of the Healive vaccine to Sichuan, Shanxi and Gansu provinces.

Mr. Weidong Yin, Chairman, President and CEO, stated, "Sinovac is proud to provide assistance and vaccines for disease control to China after the earthquake. Infectious disease prevention is particularly important at this time in the disaster zone given that the...

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Source: Medical Letter on the CDC and FDA (2008-06-15)

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