PRESS RELEASE Europe listens to the citizens’ voice Saturday 24th September 2016 On Saturday in eight countries across Europe hundreds of citizens met to discuss and vote simultaneously on what European citizens think about epidemic and pandemic preparedness and response. The consultation meetings are part of a European Research project called ASSET which focuses on…
eu: School on Science in Society, issues in Pandemics.
School on Science in Society: issues related to Pandemics. As part of the EU-funded project ASSET, we are pleased to announce: The First Summer School on Science in Society related to issues in Pandemics. Pandemics and other infectious disease (ID) crises impact on mortality/morbidity as well as on socio-economic aspects. Such characterisation…
EU – Vaccine Joint Procurement Agreement
Signing ceremony on Joint Procurement Agreement 20 June 2014, Luxembourg Tonio Borg, European Health Commissioner and Paola Testori Coggi, Director-General of DG Health and Consumers together with Health Ministers of many EU Member States signed a Joint Procurement Agreement setting out the modalities under which EU countries can jointly procure pandemic vaccines and other medical…
High risk virus – novel coronavirus might pass from person to person
A W.H.O. warning that a deadly novel coronavirus (nCV) might be passed from person to person has featured widely in the media . nCV, which is genetically similar to SARS virus, was first reported in the autumn of 2012 and apparently originated from the Middle East. Its initial symptoms are similar to severe flu and…
