Experts demand new vax as WHO meets

Officials with the world's leading vaccine suppliers will meet with regulators and scientists at the World Health Organization today to consider whether to launch a massive three to six-month effort to begin manufacturing a global stockpile of swine flu vaccine. A number of top vaccine experts say that it appears absolutely essential to start designing and making a new vaccine. The Mexican strain of the virus appears to require the hospitalization of 9-10 percent of the people who get it. And four out of every 1,000 people who are infected are killed by the virus. Report