Italian, October 30: TALIAN athletes set to compete in the 2010 winter Olympics and Paralympics in Vancouver are to be vaccinated against the H1N1, or swine flu, virus, a government health official said today.
Ferrucio Fazio, the shadow minister for health in the Italian governement, said: “Naturally we don’t want the Italian delegation to be decimated (by the flu) and so we will honour a request by the Italian Olympic Committee asking us to vaccinate all our athletes,” said Fazio.
The winter Olympics will be held from February 12-28.
—Agencies