Cuba considering making bird flu vaccine
- From: bromselick@xxxxxxx
- Date: 18 Nov 2005 07:23:56 -0800
Thu Nov 17, 2005 4:27 PM ET --
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.
Borroto said only two antiviral drugs made by multinational
pharmaceutical firms had proved effective for bird flu, but were not
being produced in sufficient quantities.
"If the pandemic occurs in the short term, there will only be enough
drugs for the rich people in rich nations, not even for all the
people in rich nations," he said.
The antiviral drugs available are Tamiflu, known generically as
oseltamivir and made by Roche AG and Relenza, known generically as
zanamivir and made by GlaxoSmithKline.
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