DISEASE RESPONSE CENTRE
July 1st, 2003
BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE EUROPEAN Commission has followed through on plans to propose the creation of a centre to speed up and co-ordinate the EU's response to epidemics. Pushed by European health Commissioner David Byrne, a European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control would help co-ordinate national health emergency centres. The main impetus for the idea has been SARS, leading Brussels to conclude that it needed more muscle to force EU countries to share information about such outbreaks.
THE EUROPEAN Commission has followed through on plans to propose the creation of a centre to speed up and co-ordinate the EU's response to epidemics. Pushed by European health Commissioner David Byrne, a European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control would help co-ordinate national health emergency centres. The main impetus for the idea has been SARS, leading Brussels to conclude that it needed more muscle to force EU countries to share information about such outbreaks.
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