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Health experts plan regional stockpiles of antiviral drugs
(Reuters)
Updated: 2005-11-09 15:26
A virologist marks a SPF (specific pathogen
free) egg for inoculation during a bird flu detection test at Portugal's
Veterinarian Institute in Lisbon November 8, 2005. Global health experts
said on Tuesday it would be possible to produce 900 million doses of a new
vaccine against a pandemic flu outbreak but even that would not be enough
to meet demand. Some 400 animal and health experts meeting at the World
Health Organisation in Geneva want to build up regional stockpiles of
antiviral drugs to counter a possible pandemic virus that could travel
around the world in three to four
months.[Reuters] |
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