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WHO, developing nations reach vaccine access deal
27 Mar 2007 12:13:07 GMT
Source: Reuters
JAKARTA, March 27 (Reuters) - The World Health Organisation reached a breakthrough agreement with developing nations on a fair mechanism for bird flu vaccine access on Tuesday, Indonesia's health minister said.

Siti Fadillah Supari also told reporters Indonesia had agreed to resume sending virus samples to the WHO as part of the deal, which came at the end of a meeting between WHO and health officials from 18 nations.
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A vendor pours water over chickens to cool them from the heat at a poultry market in Nanjing in eastern China's Jiangsu province April 27, 2007. China needs more money and more help to improve its health services to fight bird flu, an official said on Thursday, while the WHO said the threat of a pandemic remained a real possibility.



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