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...Idexx said in October that the animal health market had experienced a “V-shaped recovery”....
...Separately, Japan’s Takeda Pharmaceutical has reached a preliminary agreement to buy Irish drugmaker Shire for about £46bn, a deal that could spark a renewed wave of “big pharma” deals....
...But deals in Europe have included the second-largest cross-border takeover by a Japanese company, with Takeda Pharmaceutical’s $13.7bn agreement to buy Nycomed of Switzerland....
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