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Acambis wins $428m smallpox contract

Cambridge-based biotech Acambis (ACM) saw its shares leap 37 per cent to 332.5p in early trading after its US subsidiary won a $428m (£355m) order to supply the US government with 155 million doses of smallpox vaccine. William Davidson reports. Read

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