Influenza

WHO says flu vaccine coming within year

Published in TB and Outbreaks Week, December 7th, 2004

With the right coordination, international commitment and about $13 million, scientists could deliver within a year a candidate vaccine to combat global flu outbreaks, the World Health Organization (WHO) says.

Global health experts agree the world is overdue for the next influenza pandemic, and in the wake of SARS and bird flu epidemics, have seized the opportunity over the last year or so to push preparedness up the political agenda worldwide.

A vaccine is considered a key element to that preparedness.

The three flu pandemics that hit in the last century, and the ones that came before them, spread around the world before health...

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