Open AccessHealth ministers wish to strengthen the network approach in response to bioterrorism threat
Publication year - 2001
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 9999-1233
DOI - 10.2807/esw.05.48.02064-en
Subject(s) - legislation , european union , computer security , political science , environmental health , public health surveillance , medical emergency , public health , business , medicine , computer science , law , international trade , nursing
European health ministers are planning to strengthen and extend the existing European Union's (EU) communicable diseases network so that it can be used in the event of bioterrorist attacks (1). The network already links national surveillance institutes, and EU legislation lists the communicable diseases that need to be placed under community wide surveillance by using standardised collection and analysis of data (2). The box shows diseases to be included in the surveillance network.