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(4 Apr 2007)
1. Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono greeting World Health Organisation (WHO) Director General Margaret Chan
2. Close of hand shake, pullout to wide
3. WHO officials
4. Wide of meeting
5. Close of Yudhoyono, pan to Chan
6. Wide of room
7. Cutaway cameramen
8. Wide of news conference Chan at podium
9. SOUNDBITE: (English) Director General Margaret Chan, World Health Organisation (WHO):
"The world's production capacity of vaccine is rather limited. We need to see whether we can, you know, get more resources from partners and from the wealthy countries to support developing countries to improve their building capacity."
10. Cutaway WHO officials
11. SOUNDBITE: (English) Director General Margaret Chan, World Health Organisation (WHO):
"The sharing of virus information is required of all countries under the international health regulation, which will come into effect on the 15th of June this year. So WHO would encourage all the countries to work closely with us (++tight out++)."
12. Cutaway cameraman
13. Chan leaving news conference
STORYLINE:
The Director General of the World Health Organisation (WHO) Margaret Chan, met with the President of Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono on Wednesday, the day that his country's death toll from the deadly H5N1 strain of bird flu rose to 72.
The woman, from Central Jakarta, first developed bird flu symptoms on March the 28th, according to a Health Ministry official, Muhammad Nadirin.
The 23-year-old maid died almost immediately after arriving at Persahabatan hospital on Sunday, said Nadirin, after lab tests came back positive for the H5N1 virus.
The latest death was Indonesia's 16th this year alone.
Indonesia had stopped sending samples of the H5N1 bird flu virus to the WHO earlier this year in protest against the development of human bird flu vaccines using the Indonesian strain of the virus by Australia-based pharmaceutical company CSL Limited without Jakarta's consent.
But last week, a deal was reached between the WHO and developing countries to make fairer and more transparent mechanisms for bird flu vaccine access.
Chan told a news conference in Jakarta on Wednesday that efforts would be made to encourage wealthy countries to help developing nations build up stocks of vaccine.
As a part of the deal, Indonesia agreed to resume sending samples to the WHO "immediately."
As of Wednesday, however, there had been no signs that Indonesia had done so.
"The sharing of virus information is required of all countries under the international health regulation, which will come into effect on the 15th of June this year. So WHO would encourage all the countries to work closely with us," Chan told a news conference on Wednesday.
Later in the day, however, according to the Kyodo News Agency, Health Minister Siti Fadillah Supari told reporters that samples of victims would be sent "within less than two months".
International health experts have voiced mixed opinions over Jakarta's move to control viral sample transfers.
Some say it could jeopardise the world's access to a pandemic vaccine, especially if Indonesia became the epicentre of a global outbreak.
But others have expressed support, saying such a deal would save the country from having to buy high-priced vaccines developed from
virus samples taken locally.
As of Monday, bird flu had infected at least 288 people in 12 countries since its re-emergence in December 2003, with 170 of them having died, according to World Health Organisation (WHO) statistics.
It remains hard for people to catch, and most human cases have been linked to contact with sick birds.

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