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Officials in Indonesia said they were angry that viruses from their country might be used to make a commercial bird flu vaccine that they themselves would never be able to afford. They had a point; poor developing nations are often priced out of needed medicines, and they're likely to...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia's Bird Flu Showdown | 5/10/2007 | See Source »

But when pressed on exactly what Indonesia what it will take to get that "green light," Supari is less than specific. She says she doesn't necessarily need an agreement in "black and white" recognizing Indonesia's ownership rights, yet goes on to argue that Jakarta should have final say...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Indonesia's Bird Flu Showdown | 5/10/2007 | See Source »

It turns out that animal epidemiologists had based all their Ebola assumptions on mountain gorillas - the kind studied by Dian Fossey - and not on Western gorillas, which were actually dying. The mountain variety subsists mostly on leaves, which are available all over the forest. Western gorillas, by contrast, live mostly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Deadly Mystery | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

"We're not talking about massive vaccination anymore," says Walsh. "We're talking about getting a vaccine into key gorilla populations." And the cost? Perhaps as little as $2 million--chump change, Walsh calls it, to save our closest evolutionary kin from extinction.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Why Ebola is Killing Gorillas | 4/26/2007 | See Source »

Especially among the researchers developing them. "My trial was designed to have every chance to fail," says Bendandi. "If just one patient relapsed while receiving the vaccine, it would have been over. I would have needed a new job," he jokes. But the Italian-born physician is still working. In...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Disease is the Remedy | 4/11/2007 | See Source »

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