Belgrade's open-air markets were a welter of busy customers on Friday, pushing and shoving to buy one item _ garlic. More »
Belgrade's open-air markets were a welter of busy customers on Friday, pushing and shoving to buy one item _ garlic. More »
Doctors should give anti-viral drugs to pregnant women, young children and other at-risk groups as soon as they show clinical symptoms of swine flu to prevent them developing serious complications, the World Health Organization said Thursday.
MUMBAI, Nov 11 (Reuters) - Indian drug maker Cipla Ltd <CIPL.BO> on Wednesday launched its generic version of Roche's <ROG.VX> Tamiflu, used in the treatment of the H1N1 swine flu virus, the firm said in a statement.
Venezuela's health minister says an outbreak of swine flu among isolated Amazon Indians has been contained.
The Pentagon says a small shipment of swine flu vaccine has arrived at the Guantanamo Bay military prison.
The World Health Organization says it expects GlaxoSmithKline to complete shipping donations of swine flu vaccine to poor countries by May 2010.
Swine flu has left 11 people dead in Afghanistan, where hundreds of Afghan and international troops are battling the disease and facing a rising militant insurgency.
The Saudi health minister said Saturday that the kingdom will not bar anyone considered high-risk for swine flu from performing the hajj pilgrimage this year, though he urged countries where pilgrims set out from to take precautions.
Suspected swine flu is sweeping a traditional Eskimo whaling village on a remote Alaska island _ prompting an urgent medical mission to deliver help.
In Britain, there are no long lines of people seeking swine flu vaccine.
* 38 million doses have been made available to states
Milwaukee police have arrested a man accused of stealing a truck carrying 900 doses of swine flu vaccine.
Some of New York's biggest companies, including Wall Street giants Goldman Sachs and Citigroup, received doses of swine flu vaccine for at-risk employees, drawing criticism that the hard-to-find vaccine is going first to the privileged.
The World Health Organisation on Thursday urged people not to drop their guard over the swine flu pandemic and insisted on the value of vaccination despite the broadly mild symptoms of the virus.
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