Poor Countries to Receive Flu Vaccine: ; Organization Gears Up to Supply 100 Countries with 60 Million Doses to Guard Against Swine Flu
Charleston Daily Mail › October 14, 2009
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GENEVA - The World Health Organization hopes to begin shipping 60 million doses of swine flu vaccine to poor countries in November as part of an effort to protect their fragile health systems from the pandemic, it said Monday.
WHO wants to provide doctors and nurses in about 100 countries with vaccines over the coming four to five months, using a stockpile provided by drug companies and donor countries, said vaccine chief Marie-Paule Kieny.See the full content of this document
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Poor Countries to Receive Flu Vaccine: ; Organization Gears Up to Supply 100 Countries with 60 Million Doses to Guard Against Swine Flu
"The primary target for this round of distribution is health care workers," she told reporters in Geneva.
WHO h...See the full content of this document
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