Wyeth May Leave MedImmune Holding the FluMist Bag

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Thank heavens for small favors.......I'm sure we'll hear Bill Frist whining

again, though, about the poor beleaguered drug companies.

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Wyeth May Leave MedImmune Holding the FluMist Bag

Friday March 26, 9:09 am ET

By Adam Feuerstein, TheStreet.com Senior Writer

Wyeth (NYSE:WYE - News) said Thursday that it will close a manufacturing

plant that was making the next-generation version of the troubled nasal flu

vaccine FluMist. The decision to shutter the plant once again raises

questions about whether the drugmaker intends to split from its FluMist

partner MedImmune (NasdaqNM:MEDI - News).

All operations at the Marietta, Pa.-based factory will be shuttered by

December, Wyeth said on Thursday. In its news release, Wyeth said the plant

was making an " investigational influenza vaccine, " which company spokesman

Doug Petkus confirmed is the experimental, refrigerated version of FluMist.

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