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Flu pandemic: EU getting ready for global response
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Only a coordinated global response will be capable of fighting a pandemic, since viruses know no borders. If the H5N1 virus – originally from birds – comes to mutate and transmit from human to human, it will result in a world-wide pandemic with heavy consequences. Europe drew lessons from SARS (Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome, which appeared in China and spread very rapidly to other regions of the world, affecting more than 8000 people of whom more than 800 died) and has created the European Centre for Disease Control (ECDC) in Stockholm. Its mission: to be better prepared for future epidemics in order to react more quickly and more efficiently. Utrecht in the Netherlands is home to an ECDC partner called the European Influenza Surveillance Scheme (EISS). This network covering 28 countries monitors seasonal flu. Its statistics can point to any unusual seasonal influenza events. Surveillance is all very well but if it is combined with a rapid response it is even better. In Luxembourg, the Early Warning and Response System (EWRS) connects the Member States, the European Commission and the ECDC. Its main mission is the rapid exchange of information on the outbreak of communicable disease. Its second goal is to offer an efficient reaction capability. In order to counter the pandemic’s rapid spread, access to vaccines and antivirals must be facilitated. The European Medicines Agency wants these drugs to become available much more quickly.
With winter in sight, there's renewed concern over flu.
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If the famous H5N1 virus, originally from birds, comes to mutate and transmit from human to human,
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it will result in a worldwide pandemic with heavy consequences.
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You have to notice and realize that hundreds of thousands of human lives
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and a huge disturbance of the whole society has occurred even in a mild pandemic.
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And we don't know whether the next one will be a mild or a more severe one.
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Nobody really knows. And nobody really knows the timing.
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Preparation is therefore essential to avoid such a catastrophic scenario.
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As a result, Europe has created the European Centre for Disease Control in Stockholm, the ECDC.
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Its mission? To be better prepared for future epidemics in order to react more quickly and more efficiently.
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How? By using a host of information provided by already well-established field networks.
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Example, in Utrecht, with the European Influenza Surveillance Scheme, in charge of monitoring seasonal flu.
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The main advantage of the current surveillance system is that it's community-based.
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That means you're sampling from patients, just the general population,
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patients who go and see their general practitioner.
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So if there is flu out there, a pandemic virus, there's a high probability
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that if it's circulating in the population, that we will catch it.
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Surveillance is fine, but it's even better if it's matched with a rapid response system.
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This is Luxembourg, where a system called EWRS, Early Warning and Response System,
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connects the member states, the European Commission and the ECDC.
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Its first mission is the rapid exchange of information on transmissible diseases.
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Its second one is to offer an effective reaction capacity.
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But for an efficient response in the case of a pandemic, measures on the ground must be well-coordinated.
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The classical example of that is people saying,
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oh well, we should shut borders, which is an idea which is intuitive,
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but we know will not stop influenza.
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But we've had countries who are pointing out that if you shut the border,
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let's say for example around Luxembourg, Luxembourg health services will stop
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because 45% of the people who work in the hospitals in Luxembourg come from other countries.
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But what about the cure of the pandemic if it develops in Europe?
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In order to counter the pandemic's rapid spread,
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access to vaccines and antivirals must be facilitated.
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The European Medicines Agency wants these drugs to become available much more quickly.
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We've had discussions with our experts
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so that all of the interested parties are working together
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to take the products forward in a speedy way.
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But one of the most important issues is to make sure
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that we have safe, efficacious and good quality products on the market.
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By putting together all these instruments and making them interact,
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Europe is getting ready.
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Only a coordinated global response will be capable of fighting a pandemic
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since viruses know no borders.
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