Too Much, Too Late: Germany, Spain Seek to Cut H1N1 Vaccine Orders

Germany and Spain want to reduce deliveries of swine flu vaccine and potentially return excess supplies to manufacturers, due to low uptake of the shots, in a move that could hit drugmakers' profits.

Germany's health ministry said on Thursday that some German states had been in talks with Britain's GlaxoSmithKline (GSK.L) about reducing deliveries of H1N1 vaccine, but the talks had as yet yielded no results.'

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