International health ministers are vowing to speed up production of a pandemic bird flu vaccine.

According to BBC

There are also fears that the world's poorest nations will not be able to afford to buy vaccines and antiviral drugs.

At the meeting of the Global Health Security Initiative (GHSI), the ministers, including those from Canada, the US, France, Germany, Japan and Mexico also agreed to work with the World Health Organization to develop and test methods for early containment of a flu outbreak.