WHO: Flu pandemic threat looms

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GENEVA - The World Health Organization (WHO) on Friday urged governments to provide funds to drug makers developing vaccines against a feared influenza pandemic, which could kill millions of people.

Representatives of 11 drug companies, governments and vaccine licensing agencies ended a two-day meeting amid fears Asia’s lethal bird flu virus endemic could mutate and infect humans.

Klaus Stohr, head of the WHO’s global influenza program, said companies were reluctant to invest some 11 million euros ($14.15 million) to develop a vaccine that may never be used.

“There is a need to raise the profile of pandemic preparedness as a matter of national security planning,” Stohr told a news conference.

I can't wait to hear Bush spin this as a GOOD thing...like outsourcing or war...

"Now we are free of the need to reform Social Security since the number of elderly citizens has dramatically decreased." :eyes:

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1. Link?

Couldn't find this story on the WHO site.

[Unclean]

2. Oh come on!

They said this about SARS, they said it about the last Bird Flu epidemic, and the truth?

Well I aint dead yet, how about you?

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3. please continue here

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