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A few years ago, two major deadly epidemics were looming, that of the mysterious SARS virus, which has meanwhile disappeared out of the public eye, and a possible combination of bird flu with human flu variants. I thought that there was far too much of a ‘wait and see’ approach to the way these were handled.
The international movement of travellers from sources of infection was hardly checked, if at all; little attention was paid to research into the emergence of new flu variants; no preventive vaccination of poultry was carried out and the supplies of a vaccine for the mass-scale vaccination of people against already known flu variants were totally inadequate.
I have on previous occasions in this House drawn attention to these deficiencies: I did so on 7 April 2003 and 13 May 2003, and in questions to the Commission in 2003 and 2004. The European Union and its Member States were then hardly prepared for a great danger that could have cost millions of lives in a short space of time. There was also the imminent need for the removal, on a massive scale, of birds kept by humans. Although those problems have not yet been resolved, this House and the Commission are now taking a different attitude.
Those who, like the Union for Europe of the Nations Group, believe that unnecessary panic is being spread and that it is mainly the hunters of birds that need protecting are no more than a small minority. That is why I will be voting in favour of this resolution."@en1
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