BMJ  2005;331:986 (29 October), doi:10.1136/bmj.331.7523.986

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Combating the free movement of micro-organisms

Rory Watson

Brussels

Zsuzsanna Jakab, the head of the new European centre for disease control, tells Rory Watson that the centre should enable Europe to mount a more coordinated response to the threat from avian flu than it managed to the SARS epidemic

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The Stockholm based European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control (ECDC) is a rarity among the many specialised European Union agencies that give advice to policy makers. Legislation approving its creation was passed in a record eight months and the choice of the Swedish capital as its home was made without the national bickering that usually accompanies such decisions.

With the spread of avian influenza and the extra urgency that this has brought for the development of pandemic preparedness programmes, it now finds itself at the centre of attention within days of moving from temporary offices in a Stockholm suburb to a nearby university campus that also houses the Karolinska Institute and the Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control.

Zsuzsanna Jakab: "We have to have a much more coordinated and integrated approach" to threat from avian flu

Credit: PAWEL FLATO

Zsuzsanna Jakab, a Hungarian born health specialist who was appointed . . . [Full text of this article]


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