'Prevention of EU Influenza'

The newspaper's opinion is expressed only in editorials. Personal items exposed positions.

Reasonably effective the provisions adopted by the EU to control the epidemic of influenza did not prevent the differences to appear at their meeting yesterday in Luxembourg together health ministers from the 27. The French proposal to suspend flights to Mexico, from the flu outbreak, and the project portfolio that had been in some countries to create a community bank antiviral have not gone ahead. A mix of economic reasons and doubts about the effectiveness of the proposed measures has resulted in a typical outcome in the European dissent leave it on the table now discarded if in the future, as the course of the disease, should revisit the analysis.
True, the European Commission and most EU partners expressed their opposition in advance to impose air, but it is not possible to separate this attitude of the dispute between the airlines and those of its customers with reservations for travel to Mexico to want to cancel the trip and will return the money. In the same way that you can not deny that, if suspended flights, many Europeans who are in Mexico and wish to return, should face no difficulties. In fact, flights out of the country where the infection originated and are filled, however, operate with little outward passage. As Barack Obama has said, to close at this point communication with Mexico would be as close the barn after the horses escape.
Thus, the determination to provide European citizens with comprehensive information and strengthen preventive measures and coordination point in the right direction and allow it to venture to a single rung of the WHO declares a pandemic, The 27 have all meat on the grill. Realism has been imposed on other considerations, and although there is no basis to sow alarm, it is to take the situation seriously. That, however, which require citizens of European club, for whom the political management of the EU is often inscrutable, but on this occasion should be a transparent crystal given that the risk of transmission of influenza, even in its milder version, is, as some epidemiologists have said, a rate of 40% to 50% of the population.