European Centre is an important part of longer term response to SARS and similar threats

The communicable disease network committee has published a document listing future actions for the longer term to provide the community network with tools to better address the severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) problem in Europe (http://europa.eu.int/comm/health/ph_threats/com/sars/sars_future_actions_en.pdf). This follows the publication on 15 April of a document on ‘immediate actions for the surveillance and control of SARS in Europe’ (http://europa.eu.int/comm/health/ph_threats/com/sars/sars_actions_en.pdf).