Singapore says ready to tackle birdflu pandemic


  • World
  • Monday, 17 Oct 2005

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore is preparing isolation wards in hospitals and stockpiling medicines to tackle a possible outbreak of bird flu in the densely populated city-state, Health Minister Khaw Boon Wan said on Monday. 

He said the government had stepped up preparations by planning possible outbreak scenarios and response exercises, as well as increasing stocks of anti-viral medication. 

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