The great demand of anti-flu vaccines has taken medicine providers by surprise. The leading board of Romanian Medicine Distributors Association have announced that starting with this week all drugstores in the country would be provided with more vaccines. Health minister Eugen Nicolaesu has confirmed the information. (...)
As for free vaccines for people under risk, the Romanian minister has mentioned the campaign is going on. 100,000 people have been vaccinated so far, especially, the elderly and sick people and children in the areas where the avian flu virus was detected. (...)
55,000 Tamiflu doses
Tamiflu (anti-flu treatment) doses are being distributed in Ceamurlia de Jos and Maliuc to employees of the Health Ministry, the Interior Ministry, the Ministry of Defense, as well as to central and local authorities in the region and to the families in whose households the virus was detected. The Health Ministry is to provide 50,000 such doses as prevention measure.
Three experts from the World Health Organization are to arrive to Romania today to revise the action plan drawn. They are to bring more 5,000 such doses to the country.
Nicolaescu has also announced that authorities will proceed to more tests to identify people under risk to contact the avian virus. He mentioned the avian virus has been detected in no human in Romania so far. (L.M., C.P., L.P., R.A.)