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Article: Meeting the challenge of influenza pandemic preparedness in developing countries.(PERSPECTIVE)(Report)
- Article from:
- Emerging Infectious Diseases
- Article date:
- March 1, 2009
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Developing countries face unique difficulties preparing for an influenza pandemic. Our current top-down approach will not provide these countries with adequate supplies of vaccines and antiviral agents. Consequently, they will have to use a bottom-up approach based on inexpensive generic agents that either modify the host response to influenza virus or act as antiviral agents. Several of these agents have shown promise, and many are currently produced in developing countries. Investigators must primarily identify agents for managing infection in populations and not simply seek explanations for how they work. They must determine in which countries these agents are produced ...
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