GENEVA (Reuters) - Health negotiators from rich and poor countries failed on Saturday to clinch a full deal on virus sharing to produce vaccines, but expressed satisfaction that they had closed gaps on some tough political issues.
The H1N1 influenza outbreak which has spread around the world from Mexico and the United States, leading the World Health Organisation to declare a flu pandemic is imminent, has given added urgency to the work of the intergovernmental meeting, set up two years ago by the WHO.
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