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Nov 20, 2009 at 12:10 PM EST
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Nov 20, 2009 at 12:10 PM EST
CHISINAU, Moldova (AP) - A little onion, a little garlic...a little less swine flu. If you are in the Moldova army, you can expect that your diet is going to consist of more of these ingredients to help ward off H1N1.
Defense Ministry chief doctor Col. Sergiu Vasislita has ordered that roughly the amounts a small onion and a couple of garlic cloves added to each soldier's daily diet will allow the army resist the dreaded flu virus.
Moldova residents widely believe that onion and garlic will boost the immune system.
90 new cases are reported daily in Moldova; more than 1,000 Moldovans have contracted the flu. The army's preventative dietary measure was instituted after 24 soldiers fell sick with swine flu in the past two weeks.
About 6,500 troops serve in the army of Moldova, a small former Soviet republic bordering Romania and Ukraine.
