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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 8457

8 May 2003
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GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/health
Council to review Sars at the beginning of June - COREPER to prepare a statement along with Germany giving details of ban on tobacco advertising in WHO Framework Convention

Brussels, 07/05/2003 (Agence Europe) - The extraordinary meeting of EU health ministers to discuss the Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome or Sars that was held in Brussels on Tuesday and chaired by Greek minister Kostas Stefanis provided a great illustration of the European Union's lack of resources to deal with epidemics. Commissioner David Byrne took the opportunity to argue in favour of setting up a European communicable disease prevention, monitoring and control centre and giving the EU...

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