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Indonesia: Virus Samples at a Price

Categories: East Asia, Indonesia, Citizen Media, Health

Slashdot.com is hosting a discussion [1] on Indonesia's decision to sell the Avian Flu virus samples to a biotech company rather that passing it freely to the World Health Organization. Notes the original poster “They feel slighted when they give away such samples, but then cannot afford the patented vaccines.”