Slowly but surely, the virus commonly known as swine flu continued to spread across the globe Friday, as the number of confirmed cases rose from 257 to 331, the World Health Organization in Geneva reported.

The World Health Organization said Thursday that a new flu strain continued to spread, particularly in Mexico and the U.S., but refrained from declaring a global pandemic even as more countries confirmed cases.

Facing a crisis: globalisation has helped spread infection far and wide

With the rising temperature, most people are worried how to deal with the spreading viral fever, but a medicine specialist says the best way is to take complete bed rest to get rid of it.

"Complete bed rest is usually called the actual treatment of viral fever, Dr M Foyjul Islam Chowdhury, Associate Professor (Medicine) of Dhaka Medical College and Hospital (DMCH) told the UNB correspondent.

Common cold may soon have a cure a couple of sneezes, cough, a running nose and a persistent headache for a few days