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LONDON (AP) - Pharmaceutical company GlaxoSmithKline PLC has agreed to donate 50 million doses of H5N1 vaccine to the World Health Organization in an attempt to create a pandemic vaccine stockpile for poor countries, company officials announced Wednesday.
The vaccines will be delivered over a three-year period and should provide enough doses for 25 million people; two shots per person will be needed.
"This is excellent news," said Dr. John Oxford, a professor of virology at London's Queen Mary School of Medicine. "It's just what we need to reassure countries like Indonesia that they will get something in return from the viruses they provide, which will form the basis of these vaccines," Oxford said.
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