Expert Panel To View WHO/Pharma Confidential Swine Flu Papers

GENEVA -- An expert panel investigating the World Health Organization's response to last year's swine flu outbreak said Wednesday it wants to see confidential exchanges between the U.N. body and drug companies. The 29-member panel will seek WHO records and correspondence from before and after the H1N1 strain was declared a pandemic in June, said committee chairman Harvey Fineberg, who is also president of the Institute of Medicine in Washington. "We will want to have access to certain confidential documents that may be in place here at WHO or elsewhere," Fineberg told reporters in Geneva. The documents include "contractual or letters of understanding between the pharmaceutical industry and WHO,"  he said. WHO spokesman Gregory Hartl said he couldn't immediately comment.

Frank Jordans, Associated Press

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