Twenty measures to step up efforts against vaccine preventable diseases: that is what the European Commission presented on Thursday 26 April through Lithuanian Commissioner Vytenis Andriukaitis. A few days previously, the European Parliament had adopted a non-legislative resolution also calling for a European Strategy (see EUROPE 12006).
According to European Parliament figures, in Europe between 2008 and 2015, there were 215,000 cases of diseases, notably influenza, that could have been...