SEOUL (Reuters) - The International Vaccine Institute has set up a consortium to help monitor deadly bird flu, boost regional vaccine production and develop a new vaccine in South Korea, the director-general of the world body said on Thursday.
John Clemens, a U.S. doctor who is an adjunct professor at Johns Hopkins University, also told Reuters the institute had proposed working with impoverished North Korea to try to prevent diseases such as bacterial meningitis among children there.
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