US donates antiviral drugs to the Caribbean
Published:Friday | July 3, 2009 | 5:12 PM
The United States of America has announced it will provide 420,000 courses of the anti-viral medication Tamiflu to fight swine flu in Latin America and the Caribbean.
The Health and Human Services Department says treating and preventing the virus helps the security of the region, as well as that of the United States.
St Vincent is the latest Caribbean nation to report a case of the virus.
The United Nations\' top health official has described the worldwide spread of the H1N1 virus as unstoppable.
Latest figures from the World Health Organisation (WHO) show that since the virus emerged more than two months ago it has entered more than 100 countries, infected more than 70,000 people and killed more than 300 worldwide.