GENEVA (Reuters) – Vaccine makers could produce 4.9 billion pandemic flu shots per year in the best-case scenario, the head of the World Health Organization said on Tuesday, as rich and poor countries grappled over limited supplies.
WHO Director-General Margaret Chan told reporters after her meeting with 30 pharmaceutical companies that “there are a lot of unanswered questions” about how many vaccines could be made to protect vulnerable people from the new H1N1 virus.
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