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Plant-based vaccines challenge big pharma for $3 billion flu market
BY SHARON BEGLEY
NEW YORK Wed Oct 1, 2014 2:17am EDT

Excerpt:
"(Reuters) - Two tiny companies are preparing to challenge some of the world's largest drug makers in the battle for dominance in the $3 billion global market for influenza vaccines, armed with little more than tiny tobacco plants.

The use of plants to produce life-saving pharmaceuticals captured global attention when it was revealed that the Ebola drug ZMapp is produced in the leaves of tobacco plants."

Article at:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2014/10/01/us-flu-vaccine-analysis-idUSKCN0HQ2YO20141001?feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews