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Health Swine flu

‘No reason to panic over swine flu’

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Published 02 May, 2009, 01:27

The public should avoid panicking over swine flu and concentrate on being alert and prepared, Henry Masur says, Chief of the Critical Care Medicine Department at the National Institute of Health.

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