SA can’t handle an outbreak of swine flu

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MIA MALAN AND NOSIMILO NDLOVU | JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA - May 03 2009

As swine flu threatens South Africa, experts say the country does not have enough of the medicines necessary to contain an epidemic.

"I'll put my head on a block that we don't have enough drugs to deal with a full-blown outbreak of swine flu," University of Cape Town virology professor Ed Rybicki told the Mail & Guardian on Thursday.

Earlier this week the National Institute of Communicable Diseases said there were already two swine flu cases in South Africa but later reduced this to one, saying symptoms in a suspected case in Gauteng were not typical of the disease.

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