China has not shared bird flu samples promised in March: WHO
AFP, September, 2006
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BEIJING (AFP) — China has still not shared virus samples from poultry killed by bird flu as promised six months ago, potentially hurting global efforts to develop an effective vaccine, according to a warning from a WHO official. "The logistical arrangements are there to ship those viruses. I don't fully understand why the viruses at this stage haven't been shared," Julie Hall, an expert on communicable diseases at the World Health Organization's Beijing office, told AFP.
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"To develop the vaccine and drugs, you have to have live viruses... China is very important to the jigsaw puzzle. It has a lot of detailed information that could be of benefit." China in March agreed to share up to 20 virus samples from poultry to be analyzed in WHO-linked laboratories, Hall said at the time, telling reporters then that she expected the samples to be shipped within days. The shipment was going to ...
