Wellington, Sept 18 NZPA - New Zealand is among nine well-off countries who have agreed to share extra swine flu vaccine with less-developed countries.
The United States today pledged 10 percent of its vaccine supply, joining Australia, Brazil, France, Italy, New Zealand, Norway, Switzerland, and Britain.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) has been working to persuade well-off countries to share their supplies of vaccine.
“They own most of the vaccine out there,” WHO’s Dr Keiji Fukuda told scientists at an Institute of Medicine pandemic influenza meeting this week.
“The single biggest (issue) we have to deal with is disparity.”
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