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WHO-led H1N1 vaccine redistribution may be scaled back as countries reassess need
Published on January 5th, 2010
TORONTO - Softening demand for H1N1 vaccine may be hitting international efforts to provide some pandemic vaccine to have-not countries.
The head of the World Health Organization's initiative for vaccine research says some recipient countries may be reassessing how much vaccine they want to take from the WHO's donated supply.
Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny says the sense in some quarters that the H1N1 threat has passed is making some countries question how much effort they should put into deploying donated vaccine.
Kieny says it's important to take stock, though the virus's future path remains unknown.
Canadian officials have so far been silent on what this country will do with what is expected to be a large surplus supply of H1N1 vaccine.
Canada bought 50.4 million doses of vaccine, but less than half of the country's 33 million people have been vaccinated to date.
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http://www.mjtimes.sk.ca/Canada---W...y-be-scaled-back-as-countries-reassess-need/1
Published on January 5th, 2010
TORONTO - Softening demand for H1N1 vaccine may be hitting international efforts to provide some pandemic vaccine to have-not countries.
The head of the World Health Organization's initiative for vaccine research says some recipient countries may be reassessing how much vaccine they want to take from the WHO's donated supply.
Dr. Marie-Paule Kieny says the sense in some quarters that the H1N1 threat has passed is making some countries question how much effort they should put into deploying donated vaccine.
Kieny says it's important to take stock, though the virus's future path remains unknown.
Canadian officials have so far been silent on what this country will do with what is expected to be a large surplus supply of H1N1 vaccine.
Canada bought 50.4 million doses of vaccine, but less than half of the country's 33 million people have been vaccinated to date.
?
http://www.mjtimes.sk.ca/Canada---W...y-be-scaled-back-as-countries-reassess-need/1