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- Title
Indonesia Changes Policy on Reporting Bird Flu Deaths.
- Abstract
The article reports on the policy change concerning bird flu cases reporting in Indonesia. According to reports, the country's health minister Siti Fadillah Supari said that they will only announced the death toll from the disease every six months instead of announcing every fatality each time it occurs. The report notes that the country has the highest mortality rate from the disease in any nations, and has maintained its decision not to share bird flu samples without any guarantees from richer nations and drugmakers that poor countries would get access to affordable vaccines developed from their samples.
- Subjects
INDONESIA; AVIAN influenza; REPORTING of diseases; COMMUNICABLE diseases; SUPARI, Siti Fadillah; VIRUS diseases; MORTALITY; VACCINES; PUBLIC health
- Publication
Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2008, Vol 47, Issue 3, piii
- ISSN
1058-4838
- Publication type
Article