New York, NY
Shares of Emergent Biosolutions Inc (NYSE: EBS) topped 52-week mark after the bell on Friday as investors gained confidence in the company after the Rockville-based biotech's profitable anthrax treatments won emergency protection.
On October 9, the firm announced that the vaccine Biothrax and its Anthrax Immune Globulin, both have been included as covered countermeasures to a public health emergency under the Public Readiness and Emergency Preparedness Act.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) said in a declaration, which will remain in effect until December 31, 2015, that there is a credible risk that the threat of exposure to anthrax and the resulting disease constitutes a public health emergency.
"This PREP Act declaration is further evidence of the U.S. Government’s commitment to our efforts to develop a portfolio of medical countermeasures to address the threat to public health posed by the use of anthrax as a weapon of biological warfare," Daniel J. Abdun-Nabi, president of Emergent BioSolutions, said in a statement.
The measure came after the company gained a new multi-year contract with the U.S. HHS to supply additional doses of its anthrax vaccine. The contract is valued in the range of between $364 million to $404 million. Under the agreement, the company will supply HHS with the second order of 14.5 million doses of Biothrax vaccine. The first order of 19.75 million doses of the vaccine is currently being delivered, which will provide the company with $448 million...
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