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Europe Daily Bulletin No. 9736

10 September 2008
GENERAL NEWS / (eu) eu/health
Health ministers test public health security looking at two disaster scenarios

Angers, 09/09/2008 (Agence Europe) - European health ministers met informally in Angers on Monday 8 and Tuesday 9 September to tackle the problem of public health security. Roselyne Bachelot, President-in-Office of the Council, subjected her counterparts to a practical exercise never used before. On Monday 8 September during their working session, they examined two fictitious scenarios - an outbreak of yellow fever and an epidemic of SARS (severe acute respiratory syndrome). The ministers,...

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