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Human Genome Sciences Announces New Order for Raxibacumab (ABthrax(TM)) from U.S. Government
Date:7/22/2009

ROCKVILLE, Md., July 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Human Genome Sciences, Inc. (Nasdaq: HGSI) today announced that the U.S. Government has exercised its option to purchase an additional 45,000 doses of raxibacumab (ABthrax(TM)) for the Strategic National Stockpile, to be delivered over a three-year period, beginning near the end of 2009. HGS expects to receive approximately $151 million from this award as deliveries are completed.

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"We are very pleased to receive this second purchase order for raxibacumab and look forward to the continued progress of our partnership with the U.S. Government under Project BioShield to help strengthen America's arsenal against bioterrorism," said H. Thomas Watkins, President and Chief Executive Officer, HGS. "We all hope never to see a large-scale version of the inhalation anthrax attacks that took place in 2001, but HGS is proud to play a role in making sure that we are prepared as a nation to limit the human cost of such an attack should it ever occur."

Raxibacumab is a first-in-class treatment for anthrax, and the first procurement under Project BioShield of a product discovered and developed after the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Raxibacumab is being developed under a contract entered into in 2006 with the Biomedical Advanced Research and Development Authority (BARDA) of the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Preparedness and Response (ASPR), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). In April 2009, HGS fulfilled its commitment to deliver the first 20,000 doses of raxibacumab to the S
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