GOOD for Indonesia. There, it’s been said. The country at the centre of the H5N1 bird flu storm has stopped sending virus samples to the World Health Organization. Though this means that scientists cannot track H5N1’s increasingly worrying evolution, which is bad, Indonesia is doing the only thing it can to protect its people. It has also brought an unpalatable truth out into the open.
In a fair world, Indonesia would send its virus to the best labs and share in any vaccine made from it. In our world, Indonesia sends off its virus, companies make vaccine from it and…
