nathaniel 0 #1 March 29, 2007 http://www.newsday.com/news/health/wire/sns-ap-bird-flu,0,1078642.story?coll=sns-ap-health-headlines Just recently started sharing with the World Health Organization again after the WHO agreed not to forward the samples on to vaccine makers. Quote Indonesia had refused to share its samples without a guarantee they would not be used to develop vaccines unaffordable to developing countries. "We will start sending bird flu samples to the World Health Organization immediately," Health Minister Siti Fadiliah Supari told reporters after two days of talks with top WHO officials. "We trust WHO will not violate our trust, because this is related to the WHO's credibility." For weeks the health minister had been demanding that the global body change its 50-year-old virus sharing system, in which it collects regular flu samples from all over the world and makes them available to vaccine makers and others. International scientists had argued she was making it impossible to monitor the Indonesian virus to see if it was mutating into a more dangerous form. Indonesia has been the hardest hit country by bird flu, with 69 human deaths. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Lebowski? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
