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Africa: Markets Rocked as Swine Flu Panic Sweeps the World
Business Day, 28 April 2009
PANIC swept world markets yesterday as a strain of the deadly swine flu claimed more than 150 lives, raising fears that a threatened pandemic could further delay a recovery in the… Read more »
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Rwanda: Government Takes Steps Against Swine Flu
New Times, 27 April 2009
The government has issued an alert over the recent international outbreak of Swine Influenza or Swine flu- a highly contagious acute respiratory disease of pigs that infects… Read more »
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Africa: Swine Flu - Adequate Vigilance Needed
This Day, 27 April 2009
It is terrific that from time to time a pandemic takes the world unawares, The other day, it was the outburst of mad-cow disease from Britain and this was followed by the bird flu… Read more »
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Senegal: Raising Alert Without Hysteria in Swine Flu Defence
UNIRIN, 27 April 2009
Health authorities in Senegal have reactivated an early warning health system put into place in 2006 following the resurgence of the H5N1 avian flu virus in Hong Kong in response… Read more »
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Nigeria: Obama Escapes Swine Flu Infection
This Day, 27 April 2009
Concerns arose over the health of United States' President Barack Obama weekend as one of the people he shook hands with on his recent trip to Mexico reportedly died suddenly of a… Read more »