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Indonesia, the country hardest hit by bird flu, signed a preliminary deal Wednesday with U.S. drug manufacturer Baxter Healthcare Corp. to develop a human bird flu vaccine.

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    Feb. 7, 2007, 2:01 a.m.

    Indonesia and other poor countries have often expressed concerns - that some independent experts say are justified - that samples from viruses in their country are used to make vaccines by drug companies that they then cannot afford to buy.

    "This is not fair. Small countries are always badly treated. I don't want our country to be treated like that," she said.

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