Brussels, 05/12/2005 (Agence Europe) - In plenary on 1 December, the European Parliament adopted two reports to update and boost measures to react to an avian flu pandemic if necessary.
Following the recommendations of British Tory rapporteur Neil Parish on the draft directive on EU measures to combat bird flu, MEPs called on Member States to monitor sources of the fatal IAHP virus along with the less dangerous IAFP strand of bird flu. IAFP can mutate into a highly pathological strain with...