Poor countries hold out for bird flu vaccine

摘要

Indonesia has launched a high-stakes bid to ensure it gets a vaccine against pandemic flu. Last week, David Heymann, the man in charge of pandemic flu at the World Health Organization, revealed that Indonesia - current epicentre of H5N1 flu outbreaks -has refused to send WHO labs any samples of H5N1 virus since the start of the year. Its complaint: the samples are used to make commercial vaccines from which the country will get nothing.