Swine influenza threatens Olympics

PanARMENIAN.Net - Over the four months before the Olympics-2010 started nine people died from complications caused by swine flu in Canada. This is the highest death rate from influenza H1N1 among all provinces and territories of Canada this fall.



In the the province, as well as throughout the country, there is a shortage of vaccine doses of H1N1, produced by the only vendor - the laboratories of the GlaxoSmithKline pharmaceutical company. All Canadians who wish to get vaccinated against swine flu can do this only by early December, eurosport.ru reports. Winter Olympic Games will be held in Canadian Vancouver and Whistler from February 12 to 28 , 2010. Medical authorities in the region has already advised all participants of the games to be grafted from H1N1 in advance before arriving to Canada.