WIS News 10 - Columbia, South Carolina | Serbia buys 3 million Swiss swine flu vaccines
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BELGRADE, Serbia (AP) - Serbia's health authorities have ordered three million swine flu vaccines from Swiss pharmaceutical company Novartis AG worth an estimated €24 million ($36 million).
Health officials said Friday the first shipment of some 500,000 doses is to arrive next month, while the rest are due early next year.
Serbia's health ministry on Wednesday proclaimed a swine flu epidemic, a declaration it hopes will help prevent a surge of the illness in the Balkan country.
The health ministry says swine flu recently spiked in Serbia, with about 270 proven cases and eight deaths - up from about 130 cases and two deaths at the beginning of November.
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