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Avian influenza has arrived at our gates, with cases recorded in Croatia, Russia, the United Kingdom and Germany.
What assessment can we make of 15 days of crisis management?
We can be delighted that the Member States have taken vital emergency measures to prevent the risk of contagion in the EU by imposing a ban on wild birds, by using labels displaying the words ‘locally produced poultry meat’, by slaughtering huge numbers of chickens, by placing quotas on species and so on.
For all that, how is it possible not to lament the lack of coordination among the 25 countries, each one keen to isolate itself from any health risks present in others, even though it was with the aim of confronting all of these risks of a pandemic that, in 2003, following the SARS crisis, Europe equipped itself with the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control?
Stockholm ought to be the centre for coordinating and monitoring the health situation in Europe. It is no such thing.
Therefore, while we wait for the Member States to be so good as to give Europe a chance where its people’s health is concerned, it is vital that we prepare for the annual migration of wild birds next spring.
Let us hope that Europe puts these six months to good use in developing a vaccine and in making sure that all the conditions needed to encourage an outbreak of avian influenza on EU territory do not come together."@en1
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