Topic: Europe
ROME (Reuters) - An Italian inventor has combined faith and ingenuity to come up with a way to keep church traditions alive for the faithful without the fear of contracting swine flu -- an electronic holy water dispenser.The terracotta dispenser, used in ...
ROME (Reuters) - An Italian inventor has combined faith and ingenuity to come up with a way to keep church traditions alive for the faithful without the fear of contracting swine flu -- an electronic holy water dispenser.The terracotta dispenser, used in ...
STOCKHOLM (Reuters) - Some countries have been " ambushed" by sudden severe outbreaks of disease and death from the H1N1 flu pandemic, and have gone over the top in their response, a European flu specialist said on Friday.Angus Nicoll, influenza coordinator at ...
The Netherlands reported its first case of drug-resistant swine flu on Wednesday, but said this was " "A patient with serious flu symptoms has turned out to be infected with an H1N1 virus that is resistant to the antiviral drug oseltamivir" commonly ...
The European Union says it is coordinating closely with health experts in Ukraine to help it cope with a suspected swine flu outbreak.EU spokeswoman Nina Papadoulaki says the EU is " following very closely" the spread of the flu virus in Ukraine, ...
The World Health Organisation said Tuesday that it was valid to assume that most of the cases of influenza reportedly sweeping through Ukraine were caused by the pandemic A(H1N1) virus.Ukrainian authorities on Sunday launched an urgent appeal for help from world powers ...
Russia, Slovakia tighten borders with Ukraine as WHO investigates swine flu outbreakRussia and Slovakia have tightened their borders with Ukraine as the World Health Organization investigates a suspected swine flu outbreak in the country.Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko says the flu death toll ...
Ukraine made an urgent appeal to world powers for help battling swine flu on Sunday, after 60 people died from respiratory problems in a week.President Viktor Yushchenko wrote to the United States, the European Union, NATO and Ukraine's neighbours to ask for ...
The number of global swine flu deaths spiked by 700 in a week, the World Health Organisation said Friday, as Ukraine closed schools and cinemas in the toughest measures taken in Europe over the virus.More than 5,700 people have now died from ...
Prime Minister Yulia Tymoshenko on Friday ordered a three-week closure of Ukraine's schools and cinemas in the toughest measures adopted yet to combat the swine flu virus in Europe. "From today, all the school establishments in Ukraine -- be they private or ...
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