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Comandante · Verfasst am: 18.11.2005 10:35 Titel: Cuba considering making bird flu vaccine

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba said on Thursday it was considering researching a vaccine against bird flu, warning that antiviral drugs available today are barely enough to protect "the rich people in rich nations" from a pandemic.

Communist Cuba's biotech industry, one of the most advanced in the Third World, has developed dozens of new drugs, including the world's only vaccine against meningitis B and experimental cancer vaccines.

"We have taken the first steps to think about a possible vaccine for animals and humans," the deputy director of Cuba's Center for Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology, Dr. Carlos Borroto, said.

"We don't want to raise expectations because we are still studying this," he told reporters. Cuba has asked the World Health Organization for strains of the virus to begin work

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