Press Release: Bluetongue: Commission offers co-funding for vaccination campaign

Markos Kyprianou, Commissioner for Health, announced 0n 16 January, 2008, that the Commission will make funds available to co-finance an emergency mass vaccination campaign against bluetongue in the EU in 2008. Bluetongue is an insect-transmitted, viral disease which affected thousands of animals across 11 Member States in 2007. At a conference hosted by the Commission in Brussels today, over 350 experts met to discuss the best ways of tackling this disease, with a particular focus on vaccination as a prevention and control measure.

European Commission: SPEECH/08/15: A European Strategy for Bluetongue Vaccination http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=SPEECH/08/15&format=HTML&aged=0&language=EN&guiLanguage=en

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