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"Madam President, Commissioner, I am one of several Members here to have been seriously concerned, for months, about the risk of a flu pandemic and to have been sounding the alarm bell, because both the pharmaceutical industry and The Vaccine Fund are particularly worried. At present we do not have the necessary means to address such a risk, because we are not able to anticipate it. In fact, we know that the question is not
an epidemic will break out one day, but
it will do so.
You have given us a number of explanations and when you tell us that it takes six months to develop a vaccine, I wonder whether the pharmaceutical laboratories really are devoting all the necessary resources to, on the one hand, preparing antiviral drugs and, on the other, trying, once we have an isolated stem cell, to develop the appropriate vaccines.
The European Union should provide financial support, both to help to develop vaccines and carry out studies on them and to encourage mass production.
A condition for receiving this funding would be for the laboratories to speed up their work on vaccines. The idea of using the solidarity fund also seems excellent, because it should also make it possible to ensure that vaccines are made available fairly and to involve the Member States.
Have we, in close cooperation with the Member States, already drawn up an appropriate emergency plan in case of an epidemic? Has the Commission carried out simulations to coordinate action with the Member States, so as, on the one hand, to avoid widespread panic and to combat the trafficking that will inevitably ensue if there really is a serious risk, and, on the other, to determine the priority areas to isolate, that is to say the places where quarantine measures should be applied, to draw up lists of the groups of people to be vaccinated as a priority and to ensure that products are distributed fairly and to everyone.
I should also like us to reflect on a framework guaranteeing the rapid and unhindered export of products from the producer countries to the non-producer countries. We expect immediate answers, because this is about preventing a disaster not only for public health but also for the economy."@en1
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