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Japan, China and South Korea Sign a Memorandum on Avian Flu The Japan's Minister of Health, Labour and Welfare held a meeting with Chinese and South Korean counterparts in Seoul on April 7 and 8 to discuss the prevention of a new influenza, and singed a memorandum. The memorandum contains sharing of information and joint development of vaccine. According to the memorandum, the three nations will set up a fund to work together for the quarantine, medical treatment, prevention and other efforts against a new influenza including avian flu that is worried about its possibility of transforming to new virus that transmits from human to human. They also agreed on a research project as well as on the establishment and development of a point of contact. Moreover, a meeting will be held regularly at a ministerial level. Japan suggested the sharing of clinical data for medicine development among the three nations and need to cooperate toward the collaboration involving the other areas in natural disaster and terrorism countermeasures, and was supported by China and South Korea.
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