[Jacob-list] Fwd: PRO/AH/EDR> Foot & mouth disease - EU: use of vaccination (02)

[Katherine Wisor]

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> Date: Fri Sep 13, 2002  10:50:36 PM US/Eastern
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> Subject: PRO/AH/EDR> Foot & mouth disease - EU: use of vaccination (02)
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> FOOT & MOUTH DISEASE - EU: USE OF VACCINATION (02)
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> Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2002
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> Source: The Telegraph, Fri 13 Sep 2002 [edited]
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> Brussels to control the foot and mouth fight
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> Brussels would take charge of future foot and mouth epidemics under a  
> new
> European directive. The European Commission has concluded that no  
> single
> member state can be trusted to tackle epidemic diseases threatening the
> whole union. The EC would have power to order vaccination.
>
> Countries worried by an outbreak in another EU state could trigger
> mandatory vaccination, meaning that Ireland or France could effectively
> override Britain's slaughter policy. The intervention by Brussels ends  
> the
> reliance on mass slaughter that saw 6 million animals burned in Britain
> last year. The cull turned much of the countryside into a no-go area,  
> led
> to a public outcry across Europe, and was denounced as "immoral" by the
> Dutch farm minister.
>
> The draft law moves the European Union towards a policy of emergency
> vaccination. The commission will be able to order vaccination if  
> infected
> livestock are not culled within 24 hours and contiguous animals within  
> 48
> hours. In Britain it took as long as 7 days to carry out culls in the  
> early
> phase, before the Army was brought in.
>
> The directive is to be published in early October 2002. The draft  
> version
> obtained by The Telegraph says: "The decision to introduce vaccination
> shall be taken by the commission on request of the member states  
> directly
> affected, or on request of the member states under risk, or on the
> commission's own initiative."
>
> Brussels is to stockpile a million doses of the vaccine for immediate  
> use
> and a further 4 million to be ready within 10 days.
>
> The commission will police member states to ensure that their  
> contingency
> plans are up to scratch. Specific requirements are set down for the  
> number
> of vets and surveillance personnel and biannual field drills along the
> lines of recent exercises in Australia.
>
> The new directive is a response to a year-long inquiry by the European
> Parliament, which has highlighted major shortcomings in British policy.
>
> The shift away from the slaughter policy has been made easier by new
> international rules agreed in May, which make it less costly for  
> countries
> to resort to ring vaccination. These rules limit the loss of foot and  
> mouth
> free status from 12 to 6 months and confine the affected area to  
> regions
> rather than whole states.
>
> [Byline: Ambrose Evans-Pritchard ]
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> [Until 1990, a policy of annual mass vaccinations in bovines, using a
> trivalent FMD vaccine, was applied in several continental EU member
> countries, such as the Netherlands, France, Germany, and Italy. The new
> directive is a significant revision of the EU "non-vaccination" policy
> applied since 1991. - Mod.AS]
>
> [see also:
> Foot & mouth disease - EU: use of vaccination      20020619.4539
> Foot & mouth disease - UK: vaccination      20020630.4642
> Foot & mouth disease - UK: formal inquiries      20020713.4743
> Foot & mouth disease - UK: formal inquiries (02) 20020716.4772
> Foot & mouth disease - UK: formal inquiries (03) 20020718.4789
> Foot & mouth disease - UK: formal inquiries (04) 20020724.4847]
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