Giuseppe
Emeritus
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Press release - September 7, 2008 - Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Policies - PRESS OFFICE
A COMMON EUROPEAN POLITICAL AGAINST POSSIBLE NEW INFLUENZA PANDEMICS: IT ISSUE TOMORROW TO COUNCIL OF MINISTERS OF HEALTH EUROPEAN UNION - AT THE CENTER, STUDIES ON THE UNIVERSAL INFLUENZA VACCINES - PANFLUVAC DRAFT OF COMMUNITY 'EUROPEAN UNION
Tomorrow, September 8, will take place in Angers (France) an Informal Council Ministers of Health of the European Community which will also take part Minister of Health of the United States.
Our country will be represented by Undersecretary of State with special responsibility to health, Professor Ferruccio Fazio. Topic main Council is a verification European countries preparing for a possible new pandemic flu caused by H5N1 avian influenza virus or virus associates.
To tackle this pandemic, the availability of a vaccine safe and effective is a decisive instrument, and with this in mind, news published on a national newspaper about the next testing by a group of Oxford (UK) universal influenza Vaccine, that is able to protect all possible influenza virus, is of obvious interest, given that vaccines currently in use are "seasonal" that is only protecting against the strain causing the epidemic in a given year, and every year following a new vaccine must be produced in addition no one can predict exactly what will be the strain that will cause a pandemic.
It should be noted that the research group Oxford are not the sun that aim to produce a vaccine antiinfluenzale universal.
The PANFLUVAC Project, financed by the European Community, for example, has substantially the same purpose and also provides the beginning of a testing of new vaccine by 2008 after already demonstrated effectiveness in animals experimental.
In this project, participating in nine groups of 6 European countries including Italy, with the National Center dell'Influenza of the Superior Institute of Health. Of the new approaches to flu vaccine and more generally of preparation of our country to talk about infectious pandemics Professor Fazio at the meeting tomorrow of European Ministers of Health.
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http://www.salastampa.ministerosalute.it/imgs/C_17_comunicati_1785_testo.rtf
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Press release - September 7, 2008 - Ministry of Labour, Health and Social Policies - PRESS OFFICE
A COMMON EUROPEAN POLITICAL AGAINST POSSIBLE NEW INFLUENZA PANDEMICS: IT ISSUE TOMORROW TO COUNCIL OF MINISTERS OF HEALTH EUROPEAN UNION - AT THE CENTER, STUDIES ON THE UNIVERSAL INFLUENZA VACCINES - PANFLUVAC DRAFT OF COMMUNITY 'EUROPEAN UNION
Tomorrow, September 8, will take place in Angers (France) an Informal Council Ministers of Health of the European Community which will also take part Minister of Health of the United States.
Our country will be represented by Undersecretary of State with special responsibility to health, Professor Ferruccio Fazio. Topic main Council is a verification European countries preparing for a possible new pandemic flu caused by H5N1 avian influenza virus or virus associates.
To tackle this pandemic, the availability of a vaccine safe and effective is a decisive instrument, and with this in mind, news published on a national newspaper about the next testing by a group of Oxford (UK) universal influenza Vaccine, that is able to protect all possible influenza virus, is of obvious interest, given that vaccines currently in use are "seasonal" that is only protecting against the strain causing the epidemic in a given year, and every year following a new vaccine must be produced in addition no one can predict exactly what will be the strain that will cause a pandemic.
It should be noted that the research group Oxford are not the sun that aim to produce a vaccine antiinfluenzale universal.
The PANFLUVAC Project, financed by the European Community, for example, has substantially the same purpose and also provides the beginning of a testing of new vaccine by 2008 after already demonstrated effectiveness in animals experimental.
In this project, participating in nine groups of 6 European countries including Italy, with the National Center dell'Influenza of the Superior Institute of Health. Of the new approaches to flu vaccine and more generally of preparation of our country to talk about infectious pandemics Professor Fazio at the meeting tomorrow of European Ministers of Health.
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http://www.salastampa.ministerosalute.it/imgs/C_17_comunicati_1785_testo.rtf
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