European agency will review BioCryst’s flu drug

BioCryst Pharmaceuticals Inc., maker of the flu drug Rapivab, announced Monday that the European Medicines Agency will review its drug for the treatment of flu symptoms in adults. The London-based overseer of drugs sold in the European Union will issue a decision within 210 days on whether to allow the sale of Rapivab in the EU’s 28 member states and Norway and Iceland, a market of more than 500 million consumers.