LONDON (Reuters) - No one knows if the H5N1 bird flu virus will spark a human pandemic but the money and measures being put in place in case it does will benefit public health, a WHO official said on Tuesday.
Dr David Heymann, the representative of the director general of the World Health Organisation for polio eradication, said a vaccine is the ultimate weapon against a pandemic strain of influenza.
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