MEXICO CITY, Aug. 21 (Xinhua) -- Mexico is considering buying Chinese-made vaccine to fight the deadly new strain of A/H1N1 flu that has killed over 160 people in the country, Mexican Health Minister Jose Angel Cordoba Villalobos said on Friday.

    "Efficiency, the chance of getting vaccines on time and cost" are the factors to be considered in the purchase, Cordoba told Mexican media, adding that Chinese-made vaccines are likely to be cheaper than those made in the United States.

    Cordoba, who was in the Chinese capital of Beijing attending an international conference on A/H1N1 flu that would end on Sunday, said that another possibility is to send Mexican scientists to China to meet with their counterparts there.

    He said that the government is expecting a second wave of the virus towards the end of the year. Mexico already has 20 million doses of vaccine and hopes to have a further 10 million vaccines ready by November.

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