Canadian officials are being vague about why this country is conspicuously absent from a list of developed nations donating one-tenth of their pandemic vaccine to countries that don't have access to the shots.
The nine-country initiative, announced Thursday by U.S. President Barack Obama, involves the United States, Britain, Australia, New Zealand, France, Italy, Switzerland, Brazil and Norway.
“At this time, Canada is doing an analysis of various options to support the provision of H1N1 vaccine to developing countries,” the Public Health Agency of Canada said Friday in an e-mailed response to questions about why it hasn't joined the initiative.
