International (Europe)

France To Put Epidemics on G7 Agenda

Published in Hepatitis Weekly, July 8th, 1996

French President Jacques Chirac said he has planned to ask leaders of the Group of Seven industrialized nations to boost medical research to counter epidemics like AIDS and mad cow disease.

The French head of state also singled out the Ebola virus and hepatitis C and said other hitherto unknown epidemics may break out at any time. "Other diseases may be waiting in the shadows," he said.

"It is urgent that the major powers be aware of this problem at the highest political level. The G7 summit gives us an opportunity," he said. Leaders of the United States, Britain, Canada, Germany, Italy, Japan and France opened a three-day summit in the central...

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