Bangkok Post : Abhisit says vaccine 'on the way'

Abhisit says vaccine 'on the way'

A ruffled PM insists that a vaccine against the fatal outbreak will be here in September - although work on such a vaccine won't even begin before next month. In photo, Public Health Minister Witthaya Kaewparadai speaks with a Channel 3 reporter who has contracted the flu.

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