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Author Topic: WHO Global Pandemic Influenza Action Plan to Increase Vaccine Supply  (Read 2460 times)

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Date:  October 23, 2006
For Release:  Immediately
Contact: HHS Press Office
(202) 690-6343

STATEMENT BY MIKE LEAVITT
Secretary of Health and Human Services

On the WHO Global Pandemic Influenza Action Plan to Increase Vaccine Supply

The World Health Organization (WHO) has taken a significant step forward
in the global effort to prepare for an influenza pandemic by publishing
the Global Pandemic Influenza Action Plan to Increase Vaccine Supply.
In developing this plan through a consensus of the world's experts in
influenza, immunization, vaccine research, and manufacturing, the WHO
has set the world's sights on the decisive path forward to increase the
global capacity to produce pandemic influenza vaccine.

In the past year, the H5N1 strain of avian flu has spread to more than
40 additional countries and has led to the deaths of hundreds of
millions of additional birds, which has heightened concern about the
possibility of a human flu pandemic.  Furthermore, the number of avian
flu cases in humans has more than doubled to more than 250 cases in 10
countries.  Tragically, more than half of those persons infected have
died.  To date, H5N1 avian influenza has remained primarily an animal
disease, but should the virus acquire the ability for sustained
transmission among humans, the potential for an influenza pandemic would
have grave consequences for global public health.

Equally alarming is the fact that the global influenza vaccine
manufacturing capacity of 350 million doses of vaccine per year is far
short of the manufacturing capacity needed to protect the world's 6
billion people.  The WHO action plan provides direction for increasing
capacity for production of human influenza pandemic vaccines to reduce
the anticipated gap between the potential vaccine demand and supply
during an influenza pandemic.  

In the United States, we have been making significant investments in
vaccine research and in expanding production capacity, including $1
billion in cell-based vaccine research efforts.  These investments will
likely benefit not only citizens of the United States, but also citizens
of the world.  But responding to a pandemic will demand the cooperation
of the world community. No nation can go it alone.  If a country is to
protect its own people, it must work together with other nations to
protect the people of the world.  In that spirit, the United States has
provided $10 million to the WHO to support influenza vaccine development
and manufacturing infrastructure by institutions in other countries as
they develop sustainable programs for vaccines to prevent avian H5N1 or
other novel influenza viruses in humans.  

I commend the WHO for its continued leadership in guiding the global
effort to prepare for and respond to a potential human influenza
pandemic.  It is our collective global resources and cooperation that
will make our pandemic preparedness efforts a success and that will
position us as a global community to be better prepared tomorrow than we
are today.


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Note: All HHS press releases, fact sheets and other press materials are
available at http://www.hhs.gov/news.
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