Belgrade Health News

Pharmaceutical company Jugohemija will today receive the first 140,000 doses of the Novartis swine flu vaccines from the Swiss company's plant in Siena, Italy. The vaccines will be transported by special refrigerator trucks to the Torlak Institute in Belgrade, Jugohemija...

B92 News Politics Politics Serbia declares swine flu epidemic 11 November 2009 | 11:26 -> 13:43 | Source: B92 BELGRADE -- Health Minister Tomica Milosavljević has announced that a swine flu epidemic has been declared in Serbia. The decision came...

There is every condition to declare a swine flu epidemic in Serbia, says a member of the working groups set up to monitor the spread of the virus. Branislav Tiodorovi� member of Working group for containing the swine flu. The...

Epidemiologist Branislav Tijodorovi� says that the swine flu mortality rate is not higher than that from seasonal flu. Although the epidemiological situation in Serbia is not favorable, there is no reason to panic, because this first larger wave of swine...

Serbia thus far, with seven deaths resulting from complications caused by the virus. According to the data of the National Reference Laboratory for Respiratory Viruses of the Torlak Institute, 72 new flu cases are travel related. Since October 26, there...

Bids for supplying vaccines against the swine flu will be opened on Monday by the state bureau for health insurance. With this move, the price that Serbia will be getting the vaccine for will become known, president of the working...

We have booked three million doses of this vaccine and it is necessary to sign a contract with ‘Novartis’ as soon as possible since the number of the new flu cases in the country is rapidly rising and is now...

The data on how many people have contracted the swine flu in Serbia will be looked at in a discussion of whether it will be declared an epidemic. The Health Ministry's working group for monitoring the flu will consider the...