The article includes further information about the cell-culture technology and comments about vaccine development by Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, whose "institute is spending $262 million this year on influenza research, including research on a new generation of vaccines that can be made without having to grow a virus," the newspaper writes (McKay/Whalen, 11/25).

200M H1N1 Vaccines To Go To Africa, WHO Announces During Meeting Of African Leaders

In related news, during a meeting of African leaders about H1N1 on Tuesday, the WHO announced that it would donate 200 million doses of the H1N1 vaccine to African countries, Guardian Newspapers reports (Folarin, 11/24).

Representatives from the WHO and leaders from Nigeria, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Rwanda, Ghana, Tanzania and Niger are participating in the five-day inter-country workshop to determine "the best approach to deploy the new H1N1 pandemic influenza vaccine and other ancillary supplies," This Day reports (Nwezeh, 11/24).

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