Headlines:
| US to donate Tamiflu to Latin American and Caribbean countries |
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| Friday, 03 July 2009 | |
 The US
has announced it will provide 420,000 courses of the anti-viral medication
Tamiflu, to fight swine flu in Latin America and the Caribbean. The Health and Human Services Department said treating and preventing the spread of the virus helps the security of the region, as well as that of the United States. St. Vincent is the latest Caribbean nation to report a case of the virus. The United Nations' top health official says the worldwide spread of swine flu is now unstoppable. Speaking at a global forum in Mexico, where the virus first took hold, Head of the World Health Organisation Dr. Margaret Chan stressed that most cases of the H1N1 virus were mild. |