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Indonesia Still Won't Send WHO Bird Flu Samples

Posted Nov 25, 07 4:14 CST in Science & Health,  World 

(Newser) – Indonesia won't send avian flu specimens to the World Heath Organization, it said today, continuing a months-long stalemate over assurances that resulting vaccines will be cheap enough for the developing world. The country’s health minister had been in Geneva to rebuild WHO’s virus-sharing system, the AP reports.

"We must have equitable sharing of benefits arising from the use of viruses,” the minister said. Indonesia wants to retain intellectual rights to any samples it provides, thereby ensuring an affordable supply. With 91 of 206 known human deaths, Indonesia has had the most human cases of the H5N1 virus, which scientists worry could mutate into a form capable of rapid human-to-human infection.

Sources Associated Press, Reuters

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An Indonesian volunteer, right, administers a vaccination to a chicken in Denpasar, Bali, Indonesia, Monday, Aug. 27. 2007. AP Photo/Firdia Lisnawati)   (Associated Press)
World Health Organization (WHO) Regional Director Shigeru Omi speaks during an interview with the Associated Press at a Tokyo hotel, Saturday, Nov. 24, 2007. Countries in Asia should remain alert for...   (Associated Press)
An Indonesian man weighs chickens at a market in Jakarta, Indonesia, in this May 23, 2007, file photo. 91Indonesians have died from the H5N1 virus. (AP Photo/Achmad Ibrahim, File)   (Associated Press)
An Indonesian health official throws a slaughtered chicken into a hole to be burned during a culling to prevent the spread of avian influenza virus in Surabaya, East java, Indonesia, Friday, Sept. 7,...   (Associated Press)
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