Eight people from Timisoara were hospitalized with swine flu Tuesday morning, of which four children. In Filiasi, eight people caught the AH1N1 virus, but five of them are receiving home treatment.
The first swine flu contamination in Romania occurred on May 23, on a young woman who had returned from the United States.
Adrian Streinu-Cercel was government secretary of the Health Ministry for less than a month. He is the director of the “Matei Bals” Infectious Disease Institute and one of the most reputed virologists in Romania.