LUXEMBOURG (AFP) — France pushed for a ban on flights to Mexico and Italy urged Europe to stockpile vaccines as EU health ministers prepared for an emergency meeting on the spread of the deadly swine flu.
The ministers were to consider the French and Italian plans at a meeting in Luxembourg among other joint European measures to ward off the flu as the World Health Organisation warned of an imminent pandemic.
On the eve of the meeting, French Health Minister Roselyne Bachelot said she would ask her EU counterparts to look into suspending “outbound flights to Mexico.”
She said that flights from Mexico would not be stopped so that people at risk would not be tempted to find another route home and thus escape the scrutiny to which passengers arriving from the danger zone are subject.
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