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WHO to send extra swine flu medicine to Azerbaijan

14 November 2009 [09:21] - TODAY.AZ
The World Health Organization (WHO) will send extra antiviral medicine to Azerbaijan.
The organization has decided to urgently send Tamiflu and Relenza to the countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia.

Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Belarus, Kyrgyzstan, Ukraine and Moldova are among the countries that will first get extra drugs.

WHO official people ofhigh risk groups - pregnant women, children under two and people with respiratory system problems – should take medicine as soon as the first symptoms of the flu are revealed.

/APA
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