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Flu vaccine for rich and poor (Malaysian Mirror)
In late 2006, the Indonesian government made a controversial decision to withhold its H5N1 avian flu virus samples from WHO's collaborating centres as leverage for a new global mechanism for virus sharing that had better terms for developing countries. In breaking with the existing practice of freely sending flu virus samples to these laboratories, Indonesia expressed dissatisfaction with a ...