Saturday, 31 October 2009

Italy to give Vancouver-bound athletes H1N1 shots, BRIEF-Olympics


Italy will vaccinate 350 athletes travelling to next year’s Winter Olympics in Vancouver against the H1N1 flu virus, the deputy health minister said on Friday.
“Obviously we don’t want the Italian delegation to be decimated, so we have decided to vaccinate them all,” Ferruccio Fazio told reporters.
(Reporting by Alberto Tundo; editing by Pritha Sarkar; To query or comment on this story email sportsfeedback@thomsonreuters.com)