Indonesia Stops Sharing Avian Virus Samples from the intellectual- property- flu dept. posted by kdawson on Thursday February 08, @13:48 (Biotech) http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/08/1743249 [0]dankrabach writes "Indonesia has apparently decided to play the IP game, with the world's health at stake. The country, one of the hardest-hit by avian flu, has stopped submitting virus samples to the World Health Organization, and is negotiating to [1]sell them to an American drug company that makes the vaccine. They feel slighted when they give away such samples, but then cannot afford the patented vaccines. Logical to me, given the rules of the game; however, can't we come up with some GPL'ish license to free any product based on this data?" Discuss this story at: http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/02/08/1743249 Links: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 1. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/07/world/asia/07birdflu.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
