Topic: Afghanistan
Afghan schools and most tertiary institutions will reopen on Sunday after being shut for three weeks following the country's first swine flu death, the education ministry said Saturday.Universities in cold regions will reopen in February, while those in warmer regions in the ...
The World Health Organisation on Thursday called on doctors to use antiviral drugs swiftly on the most vulnerable swine flu patients, to prevent severe cases and avoid swamping hospitals.WHO clinical expert Niki Shindo said the agency would issue new guidelines targeting three ...
Already suffering from a deadly insurgency and crushing poverty, Afghanistan now faces a new burden -- swine flu, with fear palpable across the country after 11 deaths in less than two weeks.From the bomb-damaged roads of Kabul to rural villages, people are ...
Swine flu has driven up the price of horse meat in Mongolia, closed schools across Afghanistan and Ukraine and sparked a quarrel over whether detainees at a U.S. base in Cuba should be vaccinated. As infections accelerated across the northern half of ...
Afghanistan has recorded its first death from the swine flu pandemic, the public health ministry announced on Wednesday. "The victim was an engineer from Kabul. He was working for a construction company," ministry spokesman Farid Rahid told AFP.The spokesman said the man ...
Scientists at the Kaohsiung Medial University in Taiwan have discovered that the roots of a plant used in 1918 to fight the Spanish influenza pandemic produces natural antiviral compounds that kill the swine flu virus, H1N1. Ferula asafetida is commonly known as ...
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