Tense Meeting Produces Some Hope for Flu-Sharing Deal

摘要

It's too early to call it a breakthrough. But a marathon meeting in Geneva, Switzerland, last week has resulted in what participants hope will be a way to salvage the international system for sharing influenza virus samples. After 4 days of feverish debate and diplomacy, often stretching late into the night, participants agreed to embark on an overhaul of the system that Indonesia and other developing nations had demanded.