Radovan Karadzic, Sarajevo is not your city, and you have no right to say that it is, just as you do not have the right to say in public, even if it’s in court, that someone has dug up bones around Bosnia and brought them to Srebrenica to make a fake graveyard. This is insulting.
Serbia to Buy Vaccines Against Swine Flu
Belgrade | 03 November 2009 | Bojana Barlovac
Serbian Prime Minister Mirko Cvetkovic and ministers of health and education, Tomica Milosavljevic and Zarko Obradovic, met on Monday with representatives of the special working group for dealing with the flu pandemic in order to discuss the current situation in the country regarding the virus.
A new wave of H1N1 cases, which hit Serbia on Thursday, has mostly affected children. The flu epidemic was announced last week in the towns of Kraljevo and Cacak.
Students from elementary schools in the towns of Cacak, Kraljevo and Paracin have tested positive for the virus, as have three Uzice, two Kragujevac, three Nis and two Belgrade residents and four students at the Belgrade Military High School. Three of the infected (two from Kragujevac and one form Uzice) suffer severe bouts of the virus.
The Serbian ministry has recorded 169 cases of H1N1 so far and the first fatality from the H1N1 virus. When the first fatality occurred, a member of the working group established to fight the pandemic, epidemiologist Branislav Tiodorovic, said that there was no need for panic but stressed that the situation should be taken seriously.
The World Health Organisation reported that 340,000 cases of swine flu had been confirmed worldwide and that 4,100 people had died from the virus as of September 27. The organisation recently announced that the virus will spread quickly in coming months, infecting large numbers of people.
Visits to most of the hospitals and maternity hospitals are not allowed due to the increasing number of new cases of the influenza. Obradovic said that there is no reason to close schools for now.
Mirko Kovacevic from the company for making protectvie masks, 'Septembar 9' from Gornji Milanovac, told broadcaster RTS that the company operates in two shifts per day and produces between 55,000 and 60,000 masks. Production of protective masks will soon be doubled, he said.
According to the daily Blic, Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis forwarded Monday to the country's Agency for Medicinal Products and Medical Devices documentation required for registration of its vaccine Focetria in Serbia.
Serbia can also count on a million to a million and a half doses of the Humenza vaccine manufactured by Sanofi Pasteur company of France, the daily reports.
For more information, please see Balkan Insight's "Timeline: Swine Flu
in the Balkans".
