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"en.20051025.4.2-053"2
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"Mr President, as well as World War I, Europe experienced another disaster in 1918, namely the Spanish Influenza. The latter claimed 20 million victims, and resembled avian influenza in some respects.
Europe today is not fully prepared for another epidemic of this kind. It may well be the case that the pharmaceutical companies are better prepared than the Commission and the governments of the EU Member States. It would be preferable, however, to prevent these companies from profiting from the circumstances, and to avoid a scandalous situation in which millions of people cannot be vaccinated because they cannot afford the expensive vaccines. Preventive medicine should be made available to everyone, no matter how much money they have. Warnings should also be issued to those Member States that are completely unprepared for this potential disaster, and that are waiting for the European Commission to solve the problem for them."@en1
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