Milan Jovanovic Batut

She emphasized that the epidemiological situation is much more favorable now, with the trend of a drop in the number of the infected.
"It was expected in public that the number of infected people would decrease linearly. That never happens with infectious diseases," said Kisic, who is also the deputy director of the Institute of Public Health of Serbia "Dr Milan Jovanovic Batut".

An investigation by a commission set up to look into the consequences of NATO's 1999 bombing of Serbia, presented on Tuesday, showed this.

At the same time, there have been 15 deaths than can be linked with the disease, the Public Health Institute named after Dr. Milan Jovanovic Batut announced on Friday.

Flu epidemics have been reported in the Pirot and Zlatibor Districts, while the activity of the virus appears to have moderate intensity, and is geographically widespread.

Serbia's Instute for Public Health, named after Dr. Milan Jovanovic Batut, has confirmed 141 cases in Belgrade, 46 in the South Backa District, 40 in the South Banat, 15 in the Podunavlje, 13 in the Branicevski, 6 in the Western Backa, 7 in the Sremska, , 5 in Northern Banat, 4 in the Middle Banat, one in the Macva, 1 in the Zlatibor, one in the Pomoravlje, and 2 in the Raska districs.

"Serbia has highest cancer mortality rate in Europe"

Serbia tops the list of European countries with highest cancer mortality rates - a number that grows 2.5 percent on average each year.

5-year-old among HIV patients in southern town

NIS -- A five-year-old child in Nis has been infected with the HIV virus, the public health institute in that southern town has said.

Head of the institute's HIV counseling and testing department Biljana Kocić said the child was infected via transmission from an HIV-positive mother.

BELGRADE -Psychoactive substance abuse is a major social problem in Serbia, so the state needs to work continuously on improving the response in the fight against that plague, reads a message from the closing conference of the EU twinning project titled “Implementation of Strategy for Fight against Drugs - Supply and Demand Reduction Components”.