Sunday, November 22, 2009

H1N1 pandemic highlights world health emergency vulnerabilities

This article from the Ethiopian Review discusses the current H1N1 pandemic, the vaccine for this strain of the flu, and the access to this vaccine across the world.

"When we have a whole worldwide pandemic and everybody's drawing down those same resources at the same time, it's kind of a perfect storm. What will the global supply chain mean when the developing world can't respond, as say, [the United States] can?"


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