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Singapore may build flu vaccine plant
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SINGAPORE: The government is mulling building a vaccine production plant as part of preparations for a possible global flu pandemic, despite concerns about costs. "It is related to the economics of it. Unless it is a viable proposition, who wants to sink hundreds of millions of dollars building vaccine factories?" Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan was quoted as saying by the Straits Times yesterday. |
Scientists fear that if the deadly H5N1 strain of the bird flu virus manages to mutate into a for m that is easily transmissible between humans, millions of people would die in a worst-case scenario. AFP
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