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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8077
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/agriculture council

Byrne speaks of reaction to bioterrorist attacks

Luxembourg, 23/10/2001 (Agence Europe) - In Luxembourg, on Tuesday, Commissioner David Byrne drew the agriculture ministers' attention to the fact that the EU is better prepared for responding to an eventual bio-terrorist attack in the veterinary field than in the field of public health (Community measures exist for storage and rapid distribution of vaccines against foot and mouth disease but no system of this kind is in place for human diseases). Mr Byrne plans to encourage the agriculture...

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