Thailand gets WHO money for bird flu vaccine production
May 21, 2007 by Grace Ibay
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
The World Health Organization doled out US$2 million for Thailand to produce a human bird flu vaccine.
The asian country plagued by bird flu needs a total of US$45 million to manufacture the vaccine in its own pharmaceutical factory and the $2 million seed money will be used for a pilot plant that can produce about 10,000 doses for human use.
Thailand has become the sixth country to receive such a financial incentive from WHO,
which earlier made such agreements with Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Mexico and Brazil.
[source:ETNA]
Tags: bird flu, influenza, vaccine
